Intuitive fred888: I believe that learning HTML is still a useful thing to do

When you realize that the whole Internet (as far as users are concerned) runs on HTML (even though many other things are also going on too) is still a very useful thing to know about the Internet especially if you have a website that you are running.

It's true that things like "Compose" at Blogger.com now make it much easier to blog than when I first started blogging in 1999 with my first website where I had to program everything I published online in HTML which also took about 90% longer to do then than now. However, for example, I still code my own links pages approximately every 7 days using HREF coding which is part of the HTML way you create links or word buttons and that I couldn't do this easily otherwise.

Here is what HREF coding looks like but the way I'm displaying it in a compose mode it won't actually work unless you convert somehow this coding to an HTML mode:

Here is more HREF blank code which is some of the same HTML coding that is running this page. I like it in this format because I find it easier to think about rather than to see all the lines jumbled together in one infinitely (seems like) long line of code that fills a page. When it is displayed in this way I can look at and know this is a new paragraph and I can look at href (which is a hypertext link code) and I can look at "url" where you put your "HTTPS:" etc in place of the URL designation and then I can look at the "link text" which is what you want to name your link that actually shows on the page that anyone visiting that page can click on.

Intuitive fred888

Sunday, August 13, 2023

I believe that learning HTML is still a useful thing to do

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