Help - encoding websites .

Hi everyone..
i wondered if anyone here know about Encoding exclusive forum which is dealing with xHTML etc .. i want some community that have an IRC channel which i can connect and talk about things that i do/did/will do in future .
in the meantime i didn't find anything that approach it and i really want that thing .
why is the IRC channel is so important to me ? cuz when you have someone like " Online mentor " you can improve yourself better than working alone by yourself .
thanks for the helpers :) appreciate .

[HyperText Markup Language | www.w3.org/MarkUp/#html4 | No WYSIWYGs please | Tables aren't for layout: http://xrl.us/kd35 , http://xrl.us/iawr | Separate Content and Presentation: http://xrl.us/be84ry | Validate first: http://validator.w3.org/ | W3C ref: say e.g. `html div | Just ask | Paste links, not code: http://webdevout.net/test | HTML5 authored by #whatwg | #css for styling]

<< this is the 'topic' at the #html and #html5 channel on freenode (webchat.freenode.net #html or irc.freenode.net if you're using mIRC or whatever) -- I asked for mentoring and got a bunch of advice, chat, links etc.., so I guess it's all in the way you ask? like, you'd say "I'm reading this<link>, and...?" or "I've written this<link>, and why won't it work with 'this' browser?" or whatever

that's my two cents,

sorry but it's really messy here :S . can you do an order in this disorder post please ?

HTMLDog is all you need, you can download the ebook for free (which is one of the best books around) and use the site parallel to it. And encoding is not the right word for it, its "writing HTML". You won't need an IRC as well, as you will soon find out that HTML is just a way to describe how the content is formatted on screen. But, if you are stuck up on something you can't find, visit stackoverflow or programmers.stackexchange.com . After learning HTML 4.01 and CSS2 from HTMLDog, read HTML5 and CSS3 - Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today - by Brian P. Hogan (The Pragmatic Programmers) .

than i didn't explain myself clearly .. i want somewhere to learn how to encode websites .
thanks though .