Codecademy's interactive HTML, CSS, and JavaScript courses teach the basics of front-end web development through in-browser coding exercises. They are aimed at getting a complete beginner started on building websites.

Commenters call Codecademy a decent place to get started and suggest going through the HTML, CSS, and JS courses before moving on to a JavaScript book like Eloquent JavaScript.

On Reddit (2)

1. Recommendswaterwindowr/webdev2015in “Picking up web development again”▲ 2

   If you're looking to learn web *development*, forget about using Dreamweaver. All you need is a text editor, check out Sublime Text or Atom. There are lots of books to teach you the fundamentals of HTML/CSS, but to start off you could go through the courses at Codecademy. When you're finished…

2. Recommendsnegative_epsilonr/learnprogramming2015in “Gentle probing from a beginner programmer”▲ 1

   So, there are definitely some caveats. Online work as a developer is pretty rough, honestly. If you use sites like ELance or ODesk you'll be competing against people in third world countries willing to do crap jobs for pennies an hour. If you want to do true work from home freelance, you'll have…

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