Lesson 1: Get ready to write code

Think this stuff is hard? I'm going to convince you in the next 15 minutes that it's not. Your 80-year-old grandma can do this, even your 6-year old brother could do it. And now, you're going to do it. We're going to assume that most of you are using a Windows computer. But just in case, we'll get you set up on both Windows and Mac. And just to make sure we don’t lose anyone, we’ll go through it twice.

For Windows users, do the following:

1. Click on the Start button (lower left), and go to Accessories, and choose Notepad. I'll wait while you do that.
2. Stretch your box out so it covers the screen this way. We're ...
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This series of blog posts will take the absolute Internet newbie through the process of creating their first Web page. We'll go over basic concepts, CSS, and even uploading. I've taught this to various ages, from 9 to 60 year old. You can do this. Before we get started, let's go back a few years.

Some internet history

In August of 1962, computer scientist J.C.R. Licklider (yup, that's him above) came up with a concept that he c ...
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This will be the first of a series involving the building of a web site in Photoshop and exporting it to XHTML/CSS. This is very basic, and as I'm blogging about this, I'm learning more about it too.

As a designer, this method of building the framework of the web site allows for each fixes and good looking, well-designed pages. There are many ways to build a web site, and this is just one of them. And there are a few tutorials on the web that discuss building web sites this way, such as Elegant Templates.

First, we will be working i ...
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