Learning to Code

One of my New Years resolutions was to up my coding skills... which in fairness were non-existent. After a couple of false starts, including diving headlong into Processing and bypassing the much simpler HTML, I think I'm finally getting a hang of it. So in the spirit of sharing and saving you money if you're also thinking of learning code here are some helpful and not so helpful resources.

Helpful:

 
Site-Inspire is a great resource of website designs. Your can refine your search into nice, clear categories and share your opinion of the designs. As always it seems the simpler the design the better. You could lose a good few hours on this site, but it's well worth it.

Helpful #2:

Dreamweaver: Classroom in a book is a simple, well laid out and best of all short book for the Dreamweaver Newb. I'm almost finished it now and I've got much more results from this than any of the other books I've read. The only downside is it's expensive, but it's worth it.

Unhelpful:

Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours. This book is long, self-absorbed (this Sam guy loves himself) and pretty much useless except for one or two small points hidden amoungst it's 300 odd pages. Don't buy it.

Unhelpful #2:

Adobe CS4 Web Workflows. Again utterly useless. The first three chapters in "Dreamweaver Classroom" cover everything this book does and better. Again don't buy it.

I hope that helped. Any more suggestions of either helpful or unhelpful web resources are more than welcome.