Honestly, trying to learn HTML from a printed manual in the late 90s was way more confusing than today's interactive courses.

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Oh man, my friend got one of those manuals and it might as well have been in another language. He spent a whole weekend just trying to make a basic page work. Now he sees those interactive things and just shakes his head.

kai_king981mo ago

My design teacher swears by The Non-Designer's Design Book. Its basic rules make way more sense than those manuals.

the_phoenix1mo ago

I was that friend once. Now I stare at self-checkout machines like they're in another language too.

faith_shah8823d ago

My old copy of HTML for Dummies had a whole chapter just on table tags. The best way to learn back then was to find a site you liked, view the page source, and copy chunks of code to see what broke and why. You had to mess up a lot to figure things out. Those interactive courses today basically do that trial and error for you, which is way less painful.