Great resources to learn the basics of HTML and CSS

Depending on who you are this post may be scary or exciting. As web design do it yourselfers, you may come across or need to delve into the code of your website. You may need to make slight adjustments or tweaks and this article points you to some great resources to get the basics of the code that powers your websites.


The structure of the page is controlled the the HTML language. The following resources are primers that will get you started.

• Learn HTML in 30 days
• Learn the basics of HTML at w3schools.com

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) control how look and style of your website.

• Learn the Basics of CSS at w3schools.com

The following resource provides an interactive environment to learn both HTML and CSS.

• Codecademy

These resources are for the absolute beginner who just need to make small changes to their pages in their preferred CMS or blogging software. If you have any other resources, suggest them in the contents below.