Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide

People who are interested in web design must realize that building a website is a learning process. You have to learn it by making your hands dirty. Web designing is one of the art where you will learn from your mistakes.

Here is a checklist for getting started with Web Designing.

5 websites to bookmark for improving your English

Learning is always fun. Building vocabulary is easy nowadays with the help of lot of online resources. We are giving you a list of 5 websites which will help you to build your English vocabulary.
These websites will help you to improve your day to day vocabulary as well as for preparing competitive exams like SAT, GRE,GMAT,TOEFL etc. 

Best websites to learn coding easily

Writing a piece of code is almost same as dealing with your girlfriend.Most of the times you will get an error, then you start debugging it.Sometimes you may get the output first time of compilation itself(never happened to me except for those boring 'hello world' shit !).

How many times you have handled your girl friend without any confusion ?  How many times you have implemented a logic with understanding it properly ?

People think that coding is complicated. Watch this amazing video once to cross check your opinion. 

"Code is poetry"
if(you understand it);

 Best websites to learn programming for free

• Learn Street : A best place to learn Javascript, Python, Ruby. I liked this website as it has an interactive user interface with a terminal on left side and instructions on right side. This is what I call 'making hands dirty' which shapes your programming skills.There is a garage with existing projects where we can join and improve them. over all this site is cool for the beginners. 
• P2PU : It is simple group study kind of learning. At P2PU people work together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual and group work.Sounds good...Right ! Then sign up at P2PU

• Codecademy : Codecademy is a team of hackers working hard to build a better way for anyone to teach, and learn, how to code.
• Code Racer : I have never seen a site like this. Like multi-player gaming, here is Multi-player coding. Awesome place to try coding on HTML, CSS, iOS.
• .Code School  : Code School is an on-line learning platform that teaches a variety of programming and web design skills. Courses range from beginner to advanced levels and the user can earn rewards and badges as he completes each class.
• learnpython.org This is a free interactive Python tutorial where you can learn the basics and important concepts of Python
• W3Schools : one of the best place to learn web technologies. The list contains  HTML |  CSS  | JAVASCRIPT  | JQUERY | XML  | ASP.NET| PHP  |SQL  learn through interactive 'try it' editor on the browser itself
•  StackOverFlow : Ask any of your programming doubt here. It will be solved by the experts for free.Sometimes reading other's questions increase your curiosity towards programming.
• programr.com :Programr is the world's online playground for programmers. Its is a good website with simple interface.
• CODEPLAYER : Learn HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and more
• Mozilla Web developer Forum : Sit on the shoulders of Mozilla, Learn to create websites using HTML, CSS, Javascript.
• HTML5 ROCKS : The name itself says that its all about HTML5, the all new web technology.
• GENERAL ASSEMBLY : Its all about user experience design, product management etc. According to them "General Assembly transforms thinkers into creators through education and opportunities in technology, business, and design".
• Google Developers Courses : try this once for Android and other mobile and web development courses.
• CodingBat is a free site of live coding problems to build coding skill in Java and Python. The site design is quite simple without any distractions. This site will be useful if you know some basics of Java and Python. Then you can practice coding here.
• ADUNI : Site Looks crazy with raw html pages, but really good for concentrating on the content. You can a lot about programming basics here. 
• CODE.org : a non profit organization which is trying to teach coding for everyone.

 We are trying to update the list to make you more comfortable while learning. So keep an eye on this site. If you feel this content is useful please like us on facebook to support us. Feel free to drop a comment on this post.
Happy Coding :)


Want to learn a course online for free from Harvard, Stanford, MIT etc. Then read this post : OPEN ONLINE UNIVERSITIES

What is a cookie ?

  what is a cookie ?

A "cookie" is a small piece of information stored in your browser by a website you have visited.

Why does any website stores information on your browser ?

Usually a web browser requests the data from the website. Then the website responds to the  browser request and transfers the information. If you are visiting a website frequently, then the browser needs to request some of the common information every time. To overcome this ,the concept of cookies is introduced where a website will assign a unique ID to each of it's  visitors (for the 1st time). So this will help the websites to store your settings and preferences. 

What  information is stored in a cookie ?

information stored in a cookie

Will a Cookie store any personal information of a visitor?

No, A website doesn't store any of your personal information using a cookie. But there are other ways of using a cookie to target a  particular visitor.
Say for example you have liked a page on Facebook and commented in it. Then Facebook can  show an Ad which is related to that page. There is a maximum probability of clicking that ad  if it is related to your interest.In this way a website may get some advantage with cookies.
But not always cookies will be used for advertising only. Google may use some cookies to improve search results by storing the user settings like language and advanced search settings etc.
Facebook uses cookies to make your account more secure.It will alert you if your account is being accessed from a location other than your regular computer.This is why you will be asked to name a device for the first time visit to Facebook.

How can I delete my cookies stored in my browser ?

deleting cookies in Firefox and Chrome browsers

You can always delete the cookies if you think that your privacy is important than any other issues.
But do remember that most of the websites tries to improve them using cookies. So it is better to keep them for better browsing experience.

Open Online Universities - making education free on web

I was born in a village where it takes 4 hours to travel just 40 miles. I started my schooling in a shed where we used to sit on the floor filled with sand. There were hardly 2 teachers who taught me to read, write and basic maths. There is no scope of Computers or Internet at that time (especially at my place....even now !)

But the world is changing now(again..... not my place!!) . The Web is changing the way of education. You can now sit in your home and listen to your favorite programming class directly from Harvard university(or any of your favorite one).

Geeky Brains Blog is always trying to find informative and useful web content. Now we are introducing you the concept of "Open Online Learning" in order to make education simple and open for all.

Learn from Open learning initiatives 

Here is a list of resources which are teaching online without charging a penny.

Udacity : Attend classes from top ranked universities in the world. You can track your progress after signing up (for free!)

Coursera : Coursera has tied up with world class universities to make the quality education available to every one at free of cost.

Khan Academy : A non-profit organisation founded by Salman Khan(not the BollyWood star !!) with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for everyone.

EDX : A beautiful website with wonderful video-classes inside it.

TED Edu : This is from my favorite TED.com's product. Again this has a pretty awesome interface.

Academic Earth : While writing this post I am listening to a class on "Making dynamic websites" by David J. Malan from Harvard University. Why don't you try this ? There are many other courses also available.

MIT Open cources : Go to topics and explore your favorite filed of study. 

Stanford Online : Some good videos on Computer networks and other classes. Register yourself here for free.

Yale University Open Cources : For the physics lovers and other arts fields this site is worth to visit.

Code Academy : This is not a University kind of thing but its all about coding. I have completed 20 sessions on Html within 2 hours without any break. The login page itself says about the website(yeah! it has a beautiful black terminal instead of login prompt)
Course Hero : learn from other people with Study guides, lecture notes and practice problems. More than 7 million study documents are stored here.

Open learning Initiative : This is from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Good to spend some time to learn something here.
With all these Online resources  we can learn what we need at right time at any place(and at any age !)
We are trying to update this post soon with some more resources. So please follow us on our Facebook page to get important updates
Be curious and be creative :) 

 [update] : If you want to learn coding online for free then read BEST websites to learn programming for free