Why To Learn HTML?

Hello readers, today i am back with New Article which will make you know why to learn HTML.
HTML is the web coding used by websites. It communicates with web browsers and they interpret the code into the websites we see on the internet. There are other codes involved, but the basic foundation is almost always in HTML. It is certainly in HTML if the webmaster wants to rank up through the search engine results pages.

Here are a few reasons why you should learn at least a little HTML.

You can build your own websites

If you learn HTML then you will not have to rely on content management systems or on web designers to create your websites. Content management systems are great but they have two (if not more) flaws. The first is that many CMS built websites look the same and it is now very easy to tell if a website has been built with a CMS or from scratch by a designer.

The second flaw is that it is very easy to mess up a CMS design so that it looks ugly. The same could be said of HTML coding your web page, but if you know what you are doing and understand HTML (i.e. if you are not a novice) then it is slightly more difficult to create an ugly design (it does happen though).

Your CMS doesn’t offer everything

This is burningly true and it is why plugins and extensions are so popular. But, there are times when a plugin does not exist to suit your needs, and there are times when it costs money. You can save money in some circumstances by doing the HTML coding yourself. For example, your CMS may not allow you to add in a Favicon. You either have to buy a plugin that costs money or go without. If you knew HTML then you may be able to upload a Favicon on your own.

There may be design problems that your CMS cannot fix

There are times when you are using a content management system that you need to do something that the CMS is simply not built for. You may want to build a navigation system that is slightly more advanced and the CMS does not give you enough control, in which case you may use your own knowledge of HTML to do it manually.

                      

It could be a case of being something simple. For example, you may want to put a link at the top of your page that skips to the bottom. But, the links that the CMS offers will only take people to other pages. In this case you could add a widget that allows HTML code to be used. You put the widget near the top and write your link in HTML with the correct identifier, and you then add another HTML widget further down the page where you want to skip to. You mark the identifier in the HTML and the working link at the top may now skip the user to another part of the page. This is an example of something that may not be possible to do with your CMS so you have to do it manually with HTML.

Ever been on EBay?

Have a look at some of the really great adverts. Sure, there are a lot of crappy ones with simple text in the middle, but every now and again you come across them that are formatted beautifully and are well designed. There may even be moving text on the advert. All of this is done in the HTML section. The user adds in HTML code and is then able to display the results on his or her adverts. If you do not know HTML then you cannot touch this part of the advert creation section.

You can even do very simple things such have two lines of text flush underneath one and other instead of there being a gap (using the BR function), which may not be possible with the text formatting that eBay offers.

Want to do keyword research?

It is a clever idea to see what the source code of your competitors is like. You can see their Meta tags and how they have structured their page and entered keywords into the content. This sort of information can be seen by looking at the source code of your competitors’ website, but if you have no idea about HTML then all the code you see will just look like strange strings of letters, symbols and numbers.

You can even use your knowledge of HTML to look at your competitors widgets. For example, if they have a counter that claims they are getting certain amount of orders, you can check to see if that number is coming from a live feed or if it is just a random number increment program.