Week 8 Readings - HTML Tutorials and Cheat Sheet Items

I'm commenting on all three of the html information sites together. First, I continue to be impressed about how much free training on web tools is a available. The creators seem to be motivated by passion for their craft, and a competitive spirit; they want to be the best web resource available. And there are clearly differences. The W3Schools site has a professional look and functionality. It's forums have postings in the last week and appear to be extremely active. The home page provides links to articles about the latest web developments. For example one of the front page articles discusses HTML5 that was published in January 2008. The webmonkey training site on the other hand, appears not to have been updated very recently. There are only four user comments and one claims that the Html cheat sheet is the same one he read eight years ago. It's important to check a training website out thoroughly to determine whether or not it meets your needs. Certainly the basics could be learned on webmonkey, but you'd need to search for the next steps yourself, whereas the W3Schools seem to take great care to stay current, and be responsive to their users. The webmonkey page, too, while providing necessary data, isn't as well laid out and feels more difficult to use.