Should You Learn HTML???
Every now and then I talk to a person that is just barely getting started with things on the internet and they wonder if it will be necessary to learn HTML. Well, here’s my thoughts on the subject.
If you’re going to really get to know what you’re doing online, you’ll want to at least learn the basics of HTML. This will free you up to be able to do more with your site even if you’re using a template builder.
But do you need to learn HTML before you have a site? No.
You can still build a website using some type of template builder without knowing any HTML at all. This way you can start to learn some of the basic principles of building a site, marketing it, etc. and not have to worry about all of the technical, programming related stuff. I still think it’s worth your time to learn it in the long run, but don’t let your lack of programming knowledge be an excuse for not starting your website.
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on August 17th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Can you recommend a text book on learning html? Or is there an online course in learning html?
Thanks Frank
on August 17th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Hey Frank,
There are a lot of resources out there. If you’re looking for an online resource, just go to Google and search for “html tutorial” and you’ll get a bunch. The first one I got was from www.w3schools.com and it looks pretty good. There’s always the “for Dummies” series if you prefer their style, or even college courses. I don’t have a personal favorite.
on August 19th, 2007 at 3:55 am
HTML learning is very easy. its more difficult to learn java, xml and other languages
on August 29th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Chris at ezinearticles has a good little article about the 7 HTML codes needed to ‘get along’ in our virtual world. I submitted an article today and I’m glad I knew meant hard break or my list would have been a paragraph. LOL
on August 30th, 2007 at 5:16 am
annl,
Can you provide a link to the article you mentioned? I’d be interested to see what he is recommending!
on August 30th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Here’s the link for the article over at Ezinearticles:
http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Essential-HTML-Skills-For-Article-Authors—7-Tips&id=7185
on September 9th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I know the basics of HTML, which is very important for any webmaster but I need to learn more….
I use a WYSIWYG HTML web editor and you will need NO experience of HTML or CSS to use this program wich is very great..
on September 16th, 2007 at 9:16 am
You don’t need to know HTML to launch a successful website. If you have good content you just use a ready-to-run content management system (such as WordPress), or even easier by using Blogspot.
on October 4th, 2007 at 12:56 am
Quite interesting site and post , Dan. I’ve bookmarked it and will return.
on April 4th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I agree with your post that we should know the html only if necessarily the site to be modified. But for creating, no need of that.
on June 15th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I use a site builder that you can use html if you want or not. There are basic codes in something they have call ed useful html that I use but I am not Dependant on html and because my site builder does not require it. I have pasted code in for adsence and other stuff but as long as I can get by without writing html my self I will because if you make one mistake with it you are screwed. That kind of detail is not worth the effort. My site looks good with the little code I use.