HTML Crash Course? And, Twitter, anyone?

I am finding that I might need to augment my meager HTML skills in this new job – I want things to look and feel the way I want, and the staff in place to support the Web is competent but overwhelmed (to say the least). Does anyone have any tips on places (online or offline) to get a crash course? Thanks in advance.

And, is anyone else here using Twitter http://twitter.com/? I’m interested since I keep hearing about it in the PR blog community, but I am not sold on its utility.

I am finding that I might need to augment my meager HTML skills in this new job – I want things to look and feel the way I want, and the staff in place to support the Web is competent but overwhelmed (to say the least). Does anyone have any tips on places (online or offline) to get a crash course? Thanks in advance.

And, is anyone else here using Twitter http://twitter.com/? I’m interested since I keep hearing about it in the PR blog community, but I am not sold on its utility.

4 thoughts on “HTML Crash Course? And, Twitter, anyone?”

  1. HTML crash course…

    The best HTML and CSS resource I’ve found is the Webmonkey: http://www.webmonkey.com/ . Click the “Beginners” link to get started. They will be able to take you from knowing nothing to being an “expert” as fast as you can absorb it. Barring that, a book on HTML from Borders or Barnes & Noble wouldn’t go amiss for those times when you really need a paper reference. I use both, but Webmonkey has been around for a decade and has lots of good advice.

    Never even heard of Twitter before today. Nifty, but Myspace has won the blog wars. Then again, even the losers are still growing in a market which has not yet reached saturation.

    It’s kind of like the PC and server market. The fact is, there are more computers being sold per year than ever before. Sure, some computer makers are getting bigger pieces of the pie — like the gigantic half-a-pie slice of Dell — but everybody is selling more than ever.

    —
    Matthew P. Barnson

  2. B&N / Borders, etc…

    The books I find the most helpful are the O’Reily books. They are usually the “xx” in a nutshell. They are pretty comprehensive.

    Best of luck…

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