i am currently undertaking the how to make a website course but have a few questions.

Take notes.

Writing the code down and having something you can reference quickly helps to get it ingrained in your memory. It is a bit overwhelming at first. Even after I built my first website, there's no way I could have gone back and made another one straight from memory, heck, I probably still can't. But there are deep dives on html and CSS that will help you tighten those skills after you finish that course.

Practice

I hope it's okay to plug this but I also use codeacademy.com to supplement what I learn here. Code academy has you do a lot more code writing than listening and then writing a few codes before moving on which I appreciate. Treehouse explains things way better but code academy gives you more hands on coding experience.

And remember, Google is your friend.

What I've found out is that as long as I know what's possible I can always Google it even if I don't remember exactly how to write the code or make the changes I want. I learned combinators the other day. Can't remember what the heck they are or how to write em but at least I know they exist so I can Google them and brush up. From what I hear, even the best developers do this all the time.

Chin up, keep pluggin away! it'll come.

Hi,

The best way is to practice, you don't need to memorise all because even the masters don't know everything . You will research some things how to do them on the internet and you will find the way.

I used dreamweaver and i would say that it would be better to learn HTML and CSS before going there because dreamweaver allows you more options than you could do with HTML and CSS.

Use a text editor to get familiar maybe , instead of workspace is thats possible . A good ones would be Sublime Text 2 and notepad++, free.

Watch the lesson and then practice it, it will come naturally .

The way you put your html matters as in what order will be displayed e.g. first ,second , third .

As you said , Web Design, you don't need how to program unless you want to be a web developer that learn back end witch is server language and javaScript . It will take time , maybe a year till you will be able to do fully functionally webpage . Depends on the person .

If you have any problems, write it here , post on forum and it will be certainly solved . Also you can use stackoverflow . Also if you learn how to write code , even if its not programming , it will help you , the logic because while using the % for padding etc.. to make it resizing well , this will help you a lot . After you know how signs work , how to write the code , you will be good at it when you try to experiment with it .

Hope this answers your questions , if no, write back .

-Aurelian

Learning Dreamweaver is not necessary on this stage, better approach is to use text editor alongside with DevTools in a browser. Actually, I never used a Dreamweaver in production, only a text editor (my tool of choice is Sublime Text 3), DevTools in Chrome or in Firefox, SASS (it's a CSS preprocessor, not a requirement on this stage), and a build tool (Grunt or Gulp, also not a requirement). To follow along with your course a good text editor will be more than enough. As of memorization: you can't force it, it'll come in a natural way, your task for now as a beginner - is to form a good understanding of the fundamental concepts of the markup, the principles of styling and page layout, how your pages are stored and served through the Web. These courses here, on Treehouse, will give you a solid foundation, just follow the instructor, they all are awesome :)

Sublime Text is great, it's free and has a much cleaner interface than dreamweaver which really would be overkill in your situation where you are just starting building basic webpages. Also it is a great idea to learn about folder and file structure by creating these from scratch rather than using some of the preset project templates in dreamweaver, which could just make it more confusing at this point.

So +1 vote for Sublime Text and just keep plugging away at it! I never really found html baffling myself, but thats just me still :D

I agree, learn to handcode and messabout with existing websites with developer tools like Firebug (for Firefox). You'll quickly see how things are constructed by pulling them apart.

I doubt the experienced pros know EVERY SINGLE attribute for css and every single tag for HTML, but they know where to look to find out. Places such as treehouse and W3schools.com are very useful.

But, you can't read a book and learn to play guitar, you have to pick it up, plug it in, and make some god-awful noise first.

You can do it,

—

Philip

Well I second the opinions stated above. Dreamweaver could get intriguing at first with all those buttons and options floating around. You'll probably be spending more time trying to get accustomed to the layout than actually write code. It will however be beneficial once you have a good grip on the programming aspect. So yeah sticking to a simple text editor like Sublime or Adobe's Edge Code would suffice for now.

We've all started at zero at some point in our lives. You'll get there. Just keep it consistent during the learning phase and make sure you have more why and how during this learning phase rather than what. A clear working of the base idea never fails in the long run

Also I use Anki and it has helped me remember basic syntaxes and more.

Practice, consistency and making mistakes, just the three things you need for now.

Hope it helps. Good luck