An interactive introductory course from Codecademy covering HTML and CSS, the markup and styling languages used to build web pages. Lessons are short and include in-browser coding exercises and small projects.

Commenters call it an easy, free, interactive starting point for web design, with lessons broken into small pieces and projects.

On Reddit (6)

1. Strongly recommendsmidwestcreativer/learnprogramming2016in “I've just been offered a job in web design, and don't know how to design websites. Save me.”

   To speak from very recent experience, I finally decided to buckle down and do the Codecademy course on html/css. I'm almost finished with it after about 3 days, and already feel like with the help of google to look up specific properties and such when needed, I could create a pretty nice looking…

2. Recommendsdyskgor/Entrepreneur2017in “Starting a webdesign company.”

   I'm doing the same thing as you, except focusing on WordPress design and development. Like everyone else, I really suggest learning how to work with WordPress, and also learning HTML/CSS asap. Honestly, it really doesn't take long to learn some moderate HTML and CSS - after a few courses on…

3. RecommendsVexithr/webdev2015in “Beginner redditor in big need of help!”

   Well first of all, you are going to need to recreate your design for the web using HTML & CSS. Take the codecademy course on them if you are not familiar with them yet. In regards to the e-mail , i'm not sure what you mean. Do you want a simple contact form or are you looking for your users to…

4. RecommendsOneHalfPandar/learnprogramming2015in “I have officially failed at learning programming.”▲ 3

   I also started wondering this as I kept reading it. Anyways, I agree with this response. Reading is one thing - it allows you to learn/try to understand the concepts, but actually doing the coding is something completely different. It forces you to think in a different way and apply the concepts…

5. MentionsParadigmPhoenixr/learnprogramming2015in “What's a good general purpose programming language?”

   Yeah I've decided I'm going to do the course on HTML & CSS at Codecademy as a starter then move onto Python Javascript.

6. Mentionscaeliatr/learnprogramming2013in “What languages and resources do I need to build a website from scratch?”▲ 3

   Check out http://www.codecademy.com. I haven't tried it but I see it recommended a lot. It has courses for html and css, javascript, jquery, and php.

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