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  1. Sep 4th, 2011, 08:53 PM #1
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    W3Schools

    http://w3fools.com/

    Anyone starting to learn web development should take a read of this and understand that W3Schools is not a good place to be learning web development techniques.

    NB: I am not affiliated in any way with this site. I just think that w3schools is an inaccurate resource of information and should not be used as a first-point reference.
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    Re: W3Schools

    Good find! I should have thought that the address would have4 been something like that. Yeah, W3school is not a good source for learning web development techniques, I think the people that run the site might be hobbyists rather than actual developers. Although, I can't really complain because I have some shocking practices too.
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    Re: W3Schools

    Quote Originally Posted by Nightwalker83 View Post
    Although, I can't really complain because I have some shocking practices too.
    I started out learning HTML/CSS from W3Schools, so I can't complain too much...
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    Re: W3Schools

    I've never found W3Schools to be particularly bad, and as a quick reference I've had use for it on many occasions. The errors pointed out on that site seem relatively minor and easily correctible. As for the certs thing - whatever; it's not like they're the only site offering a useless merit badge. Double-check the real world value of any cert before you seek it.

    It's not the best site there is, but I don't think it deserves much hate either.
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    Re: W3Schools

    Interesting read, found myself nearly half way down the examples.

    That Sitepoint looks good, unfortunetly W3Schools has such good search engine ratings its too easy to get straight to the page you want using google. Will definitly try to give site point a go.
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    Re: W3Schools

    I've been using https://developer.mozilla.org/ for most of the references. It's only downside is the lack of a good colour palette reference, so I use this site from Paul Irish.
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    Re: W3Schools

    W3School website is nice site. I learn HTML, JavaScript So easily.
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  9. Sep 30th, 2011, 02:00 AM #8
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    Re: W3Schools

    The W3schools' examples and tutorials are over simplified thus missing the point. They mentioned at the footer of their home page what they do and how they do it. The content of their site are helpful but for absolute beginners.
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