Im learning Web Development...maybe??

i have been doing website stuff for a while, basically just from spending 100's hours on my pc. Ive read HTML books and many more. All the stuff i find tells me how to do stuff but dosent really explain why it all works! They say its a "mark up" languages, but never explain what that is, whats a framework?, whats syntax?, what are javascript libraries? These are some of the things i want to learn to have a solid foundation in web development. 9 out of 10 times i can get things to work, but i dont know why they work! Can i get opinions on wheres the best place to START! Basically i need step 1. Thanks.

Im learning Web Development...maybe??
Its sad to hear, that you have allready done the same mistake, as i did when i first started out.





Reading books on certain topics can be a good thing, however when it comes to web-design, it is a complete waste of time, why? Well its simple really, you would want the copy/paste function anabled.





Typing in all the different examples in the books by hand, can take quite some time; having the copy/paste function at your disposal, will allow you to focus your time on more important stuff.





---MarkUp---


Is pretty much self-explanatory, in that it means "marked up stuff", you will "mark up stuff", and you apply style to it through CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).





---Syntax---


Is basically the "rules" of a language. PHP for instance; get the syntax wrong, and the code most likely won't work.





For instance, if you don't understand Danish, and i suddenly started speaking Danish to you, thrat wouldn't get my point through, unless you where somehow blessed in the moment now, would it?





---libraries---


These are like a collection of pre-made functions and such, which should (and usually will), make it easier, and faster to develop applications and/or websites, you can even make your own libraries.





---Website's---


Below i've inserted some websites for you to read, understanding how things work, and why they work, comes with experiance, the more experiance you gather, the more you understand how things work.





http://www.w3cschool.com/ - (tutorials/references)


http://www.brugbart.com/ - (tutorials/references)


http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/ - (Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML)


http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/fir... - (Starting with HTML + CSS)
Reply:w3schools
Reply:w3schools is right. Here's the link:





http://www.w3schools.com/





It covers just about every web development topic you can imagine, and it's all clear with tons of examples.
Reply:Follow the "novice" links under "online learning resources" in the right-hand navigation bar at:





http://home.comcast.net/~richarduie/





If you "eat and digest" those, move on to the "expert" links.