I've pretty much learned HTML on my own, though not taking a formal class wasn't for lack of trying. I approached my local community college about 10 years ago and -- believe it or not -- the respsonse was, "What???"
Between friends and online assistance, like WebMonkey, and checking out source code, I've usually been able to make my pages look how I want them to look. I started with Geocities in 1996, using their online text editor and also Netscape 3.04 Gold's editor off-line. Guess I'll be moving all that to another server sometime soon; I see Yahoo! is going to shut down GeoCities.
I finally jumped on the blog-wagon in late 2003 with Blogger. Though I never learned any scripting, or how to create CSS, I could use the templates and then edit to my heart's (and the extent of my knowledge or trial-and-error) content. The most frustrating thing now is that I do not have enough knowledge to work in the new templates, so I'm stuck (for now) with the widget templates.
About two years ago I set up a domain, installed the free WordPress, but unfortunately have not had time to really learn all I need to know to work easily in that environment. I hope to have time soon to do that. Having it does provide me space for photos and files... and actually, I think I remember I have already copied all the GeoCities files there -- but the work up updating all the links will take *SO* much time!
I'm glad to have the links to more advanced coding tutorials provided in the unit lecture and assignments this week. Even paging through the basics, I learned things (like in the future certain tags will require closing tags that haven't needed them in the past -- so I'm closing my paragraph tags in this post), so I plan to keep working through the tutorials.
I like to work in code rather than WYSIWYG. It's like knowing a secret, akin to working on the command line versus working with the GUI.
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