Java/HTML Quick start

Obviousman · 17 Apr 2009, 17:54

In need of a quick start guide to both of these, does anyone know any good books/sites that might help me to roughly understand? I've got access to books24x7 which apparently has lots of stuff available as read online (i.e. the for dummies series), so if anyone can point me to a good one, don't hesitate

Thanks

Big Si · 17 Apr 2009, 19:34

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/quicklist.html

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

http://www.alistapart.com/topics/code

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/beginner/default.aspx

Obviousman · 17 Apr 2009, 20:01

I knew I could rely on you

lazarus corporation · 17 Apr 2009, 20:05

HTML is something you should be able to learn fairly quickly from the links given above - it's a simple mark-up language

Java, on the other hand, is a complicated object-orientated programming language which will take you a few years to learn. I just want to check that you didn't actually mean JavaScript, not Java.

Obviousman · 17 Apr 2009, 20:15

Aye, I know HTML is fairly easy and doable, so a couple of pointers was what I needed. I need to help do some stuff on a new corporate intraweb thingy we're starting, I kind of volunteered (slightly less Chinese volunteered than what they'd expected), the manager said some basic html and java knowledge was what he needed. I did dabble with Frontpage before but wouldn't mind having a bit more background this time

Not a clue whether it's Java or JavaScript, possibly the basic-est of the both? You'll probably know better

Big Si · 17 Apr 2009, 20:19

Obviousman wrote:Aye, I know HTML is fairly easy and doable, so a couple of pointers was what I needed. I need to help do some stuff on a new corporate intraweb thingy we're starting, I kind of volunteered (slightly less Chinese volunteered than what they'd expected), the manager said some basic html and java knowledge was what he needed. I did dabble with Frontpage before but wouldn't mind having a bit more background this time

Not a clue whether it's Java or JavaScript, possibly the basic-est of the both? You'll probably know better

I'll be starting some Javascript soon, General. PM me your email address as I may have some stuff to send you

Obviousman · 17 Apr 2009, 20:25

Groovy

Email = msn for me

Harvey Winston · 17 Apr 2009, 20:25

sounds like it's javascript. java depends on what you use for the back end grunt, I don't think many people use it for applets (is that what they're called these days?).

Have you dipped your toes in the content management system - templating, approval, workflow etc...? Intranets (like most websites) are all about separating the content from the presentation - publish the content to a database/xml files & generate the content dynamically, using caching to reduce the load.

w3schools is a great recommendation from Si, excellent site.

you'll need to go up to the elbows in CSS too

have fun!

18 Apr 2009, 08:08

Yeah I think they mean JavaScript not Java. +1 for w3schools.

http://reference.sitepoint.com/html and the associated css and js sections are a good reference, but probly not for beginners.