ta-daaa

Now I’m dangerous.

My experience with HTML has heretofore been restricted to bolding and italicizing words in the middle of sentences, which has proven marginally useful on Internet message boards and completely useless in trying to impress anyone with my fluency. Luckily, Snyder’s HTML primer provides not only the code basics (good to remember), but a bit of theory on tables and borders that helps explain how HTML organization translates to page design.

I read an HTML primer …

introducing … “33ccff”

Snyder’s explanation of color is perhaps the thing I’ll remember most from the chapter. The base-16 (hexadeximal) numbering system indicates custom color combinations that are much more sensibly coded than I’d previously thought they were.

I offer a solid salute to those who attempt Web design without the help of Dreamweaver, Flash or other plug-and-go site construction software. I cannot imagine being in such complete command of the language that I could write a page by scratch. However, having even a passing acquaintence with HTML methods allows any amateur to access and manipulate already-written site code.

Every now and then, I’ll scroll up to “view source” on my browser to reveal the framework of particularly well-designed sites. Usually it’s something daunting like this:

… that’s another day.

Until then, here are a couple tutorial links to help any comrades I may have in aspiring HTML abuse:
htmlcodetutorial.com:
A really nicely organized resource, easy to find specific commands
htmlgoodies.com:
Javascript, CSS, ASP and other lessons for budding developers