: Putting Together HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Hopefully this question isn't too broad… I am a competent iOS programmer and have some experience with Java (command-line tools). Over the last year

@Bethany197

Most of the comments are correct, though W3Schools comes up in google searches almost as often as wikipedia, neither of them are really what you need to learn. The full specs can be found at W3.org where there are pages for HTML 4.01, XHTML, CSS1 and CSS2 as well as up an coming things like HTML5 and CSS3 drafts. These are the places to go for the exact specs of how everything works.

In addition to the three skills you mentioned, html, css, and javascript, you should also look to adding a server side language to your toolset and a database. There are many to choose from but since you say your familour with C I'd suggest trying PHP for server scripting and MySQL for databases. These five items are what I use each day.

You mention that you are used to having librarys in Java that you can call on. Such things do exist in html/css/javascript world. There are javascript libraries and frameworks such as JQuery, Mootolls and Dojo amounst others. For CSS there are also frameworks such as Blueprint, YUI, JqueryUI, 960 and more. These can help advance you along the road to getting a usable, modern looking, design for your site.

As for how to learn. It's quite difficult to start with a blank page and work out everything from the ground up. It would be like a new house builder being given a blank plot of land and told to try to build a house. The first house he builds will be awfull, the second little better. Instead the builder learns one trade at a time. The first year he might do nothing but carry bricks. Then he might learn to mix cement and so on. He might be 40 or 50 years old before he knows every aspect and can work a whole project form start to finish and even then he will rely on other people expertise to complete many tasks.

Instead, start yourself off with a site that is already pretty much done. You can then play with the CSS and learn what things do. Change values and add styles. When you mess it up, go back to the beginning and start again. The same with html and javascript. Play on an existing template and learn one skill at a time. It might be a good idea to start with a CMS like Drupal or Wordpress and build simple site then try editing the CSS, writing your own template files or building your own plugins of these systems. Once you've cut your teeth you can try building your own sits from the ground up.

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@Connie744

Firstly you should probably ask this question over at webmasters.stackexchange.com

Secondly W3Schools teaches the syntax and the rules but not the design aspects of websites. You should look up on how to cover a PhotoShop document to CSS and HTML

For example see
csshowto.com/layout/psd-to-csshtml-in-easy-steps-part-1/ designm.ag/resources/converting-psd-to-html/

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