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HTML and why we love it (really, we do) By: Mark Morgan on 9/10/2000; 3:40 PM Copied from another place to here, for your evaluation. Because we love you. Yes we do. Except for you. We've always hated you. <Disclaimer>Not a professional designer</Disclaimer> I hand code the majority of my site, but I use a content management system (not a WYSIWIG editor) to automate a lot of the grungework. For example, the CMS (Conversant) automatically generates the title of pages based on the subject entered into a form. In my opinion, you need to learn HTML (1) to understand where your editor or CMS has screwed you up (or where you added garbage without knowing you were doing it), and (2) because no editor can keep up with the fast pace of changing browsers and changing standards. Some time you might decide you want your code to validate, and if it doesn't you need to know how to make it so. I try to keep up on things to make my site look at least semi-professional, and the only way to do so it to read HTML. On the other hand, I am so very happy Conversant writes the actual linked stylesheet for me. Very, very happy... (But even there, if it didn't work out I could theoretically do it all myself and put the stylesheet in my static server space and the code in the proper place in my templates. Always be willing to take control over your tools.)
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