What are the advantages of learning html when there are programs that can do this for me.?

I'm interested in starting a web site and I've noticed that alot of people say to learn html. Is this a necessity or just a nice thing to know?

What are the advantages of learning html when there are programs that can do this for me.?
At first you will be fine just using the basic templates and everything, but what I found was that the more I used those things, and the more I played with them, the more I became comfortable with HTML. The bottom line is that you will eventually need to make a change, and you will spend hours looking up online or something to figure out how to move something or modify it. In the end, you will get familiar with HTML in a way that won't make you an expert, but you will be able to tweak the site to fit your needs. I personally like to start with basic templates and then look up html online for tips. I know very basic, elementary stuff, but it has proved helpful in dissolving my obstacles when designing web pages.
Reply:It is NOT necessary, you could use www.freewebs.com witch gives you the option of creating your website using HTML or not.





It is a basic language formed with arrows, EG:





%26lt;form%26gt;


%26lt;input type="radio" name="sex" value="male"%26gt; Male


%26lt;br%26gt;


%26lt;input type="radio" name="sex" value="female"%26gt; Female


%26lt;/form%26gt;





OR:





%26lt;form%26gt;


First name:


%26lt;input type="text" name="firstname"%26gt;


%26lt;br%26gt;


Last name:


%26lt;input type="text" name="lastname"%26gt;


%26lt;/form%26gt;





This may help, w3schools.com
Reply:You do not have to know it but it helps. See WYSIWYG editors can make pages for you but if you know HTML youself you can jazz up your sites more than what most editors offer in their software. So i guess it all depends on what you are wanting to do and how attractive you may want it.
Reply:It's not a necessity, until you want to do something that your program doesn't do automatically. In general, it's not a hard language, and it does help you to understand what's happening on your site quite a bit better, which is why it's recommended.
Reply:you may build a portal with programs which would write html for you...


but debugging can be a problem if you come across a any bugs later....


HTML is a very easy language... it consists of few elements to be learnt.... very very simple...


http://w3schools.com/ can help you learn it in a day or 2...


just practice some examples and you are there...
Reply:The programs that create html often times leave globs of code which aren't needed within the actual context of the site.


The more and more giberish code that remains often creates problems for search engines to read and index your site. Web browsers soon may encounter display issues. The larger your site gets and the more you need an actual developer the more you may need to pay to bring the site up to code. If a programmer (being in their shoes) encounters a site with bad code they may need to re write the code from scratch. The more pages you have the deeper the problem can get pretty quickly. Basic html is pretty eay to learn and really has a dozen tags that you need to learn to make a website. It is well worth learning.


James www.cfwebmaster.com

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