How non-programmers can get Acquainted with HTML and CSS – Meeting the Basic Blogging Requirements

How non-programmers can get Acquainted with HTML and CSS – Meeting the Basic Blogging Requirements

While one can prove to be a successful blogger based on his/her expertise on the subject he/she is writing on and the value that their content is creating for their readers, knowing the basics of HTML and CSS can prove to be really beneficial for blogger. Also, HTML and CSS are unarguably the least nerdy computer languages out there, therefore people with no programming experience can get used to these pretty easily.

Learning HTML and CSS can help a blogger tailor the way he presents his blog’s design and the articles that he write.

Thanks to the presence of awesome resources present on the internet, you don’t even need to spend a dime on hiring a tutor or for buying reference books. This post shall contain a list of the resources that can get you acquainted with HTML and CSS for free.

• Codecademy:

  Completing the HTML & CSS track on Codecademy will clear your basics on the aforementioned languages. There are over a hundred exercises in this track and if you are seriously thinking about learning them, you will probably go through them all within a day.
  Codecademy requires you to test what you’ve learnt in a tutorial to let you proceed to the next exercise, thus making sure that you aren’t left out at any point of time.
  If you fall in love with HTML and CSS, Codecademy can help you to get started with other web development languages too, including PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, Python, Ruby and Perl.

• W3 Schools:

  If one has to point out the single best (online) reference source for HTML and CSS, then W3 Schools would be it. Head over to the W3 Schools website and look for whatever HTML or CSS tag you want. It has adequate examples for almost every tag that you can think of in HTML and CSS. Consider it your best friend whenever you encounter a new tag that you haven’t heard of.

• Stack Exchange:

  Stack Exchange is probably the largest online developer community. So, if something doesn’t make sense and you need a real individual to answer your doubts, Stack Exchange is the way to go. Just make sure you tag your question appropriately as HTML or CSS and that someone hasn’t already asked the exact same question on the forum earlier.

• Google:

  I don’t think I need to justify the presence of Google in this list. Whenever you need to find any answer to any of your queries regarding HTML or CSS, Google obviously holds the answer.

• HTML Editor:

  Practice makes a man (or woman, for that matter) perfect. So, once you are feeling confident enough about spinning out some HTML code and see what it would look like in a browser, head over to our HTML editor as it updates the output at the press of a button. Place you CSS code within
  <style> <!–CSS Code goes here–></style>
  tags and then start your HTML code, press the Generate output button and revel in the glory of the code you just wrote.