HTML-​aphobia

Here’s the deal. I do not under­stand HTML (HyperText Markup Language-didn’t even know what it stood for). It just looks like gib­ber­ish to me. The fact that I was able to add any HTML wid­gets to this blog still amazes me (thanks to cut-​n-​paste codes). My reac­tion to my suc­cess can only be equated to cave­men dis­cov­er­ing fire.

When I began to read about free­lanc­ing, sev­eral books had sec­tions on HTML, but I fig­ured that I wouldn’t really need it. I real­ize now that know­ing some HTML lan­guage is vital. As a new writer-​unless you left a lucra­tive career to free­lance or you know somebody-​you don’t have the money to shell out to a designer to cre­ate a web­page or blog for you.

That’s where the Internet again proves itself as a valu­able resource for any writer.

Many web­sites such as HTML Code Tutorial and HTML Goodies have helped me so much.

I’m still very ner­vous about using HTML-​I had a bad expe­ri­ence where code was show­ing up on my blog-​but I will in time become more con­fi­dent thanks to the web.

My next goal: Figuring out how to indent these dang para­graphs!

Thanks for read­ing,