HTML Coding

    When it comes to designing your blog, there are 2 choices you come across. Those 2 choices are whether or not to choose to design your whole layout yourself by using HTML (HyperText Markup Language) coding OR you can simply just choose a template that your blog site provides for you. Most people decide to simply just choose a template because let's face it; not everyone knows how to use HTML coding or has the time to even put up with it all. HTML isn't hard at all. In fact, anyone can do it!  Here are some basic coding that anyone and everyone should know:

<strong>Bold</strong> Bold <em>Italic</em> Italic <h1>Page Header</h1> Page Header <h2>Headline</h2> Headline <h3>Section Header</h3> Section Header <a href=”http://site.com”>Link to site.com </a> Link to site.com <img src=”http://www.site.com/path/to/images/image.jpg”> (Note:the <img> tag is unique in not needing a closing tag.) <p> Starts a new paragraph <br> Inserts a line break <ol> <li>List item </li> <li>List item </li> </ol> Ordered (Numbered) List List Item List Item <ul> <li>List item </li> <li>List item </li> </ul> Unordered (Bulleted) List List Item List Item

Now, the only downside to HTML coding is that you have to close all your coding. If you don't close them, then your whole coding can mess up. Once you get comfortable with HTML coding, you can move on to bigger coding such as Javascript. Javascript is basically the same concept only simpler, in my opinion.    Why learn HTML coding? It gives you some background on just how much time and dedication some programmers go through on a daily basis. Besides, even if you do use blog templates. With simple HTML coding, you can transform your regular template; that billions of users have, to something that no one else has. Isn't that great?!

HTML Coding Courtesy of The Basics of HTML Blogging