Not So Lucky

Urban Dictionary refers to HTML or "Horrible Typing Madness Language",  as a computer web language code used to program websites which has a high tendency to make you go insane, and I couldn't agree more. For someone who has never really seen HTML,  it's complex inscriptions and symbols make it extremely hard to learn.

 

In the process of reading the first few chapters of Julie C Melon's book Sam's Teach Yourself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it was like I was a deer in headlights. Confused and a little nervous to see how much of an outcome of this classes grades would reflect on this learning - I am still skeptical. However, I do understand its importance and see the interesting aspects intended. To make a website out of just coding is awesome, and the fact that there is even a cyber type language out there that people can understand and sort of communicate with is really really intriguing. If a site isn't interesting enough or have photos or things that make me want to stop and read for a second, its wasting my time - and the only way to have those things is through HTML. I give a lot of credit to those who are skilled in creating their own web designs, realizing that I, am not so fortunate.

 

With my specific blog, I do not think I will be using HTML very much. We have all the tools already programmed into the site. I can upload videos and pictures, and play with where I locate things and the spacing between them.. If anything, I would just use it to pick a different font size or style. I also would like to focus my blog on more of my actual writing's rather than the fancy things around it. It's almost like a personal diary isn't it? Only on a screen rather on paper....

I will however, practice on other applications like notepad, text wrangler, etc. Hopefully I will get the hang of HTML, learn to love it, and am able to use it in my future endeavors.