Welcome to part 4 of my series: “Top 5 Questions People Ask Me About HTML5.” In the previous three newsletters, I explained what HTML5, why it’s important, and whether it’s safe to use it today. In this newsletter, I’m going to talk about why everyone should learn at least some HTML5.
At this point, you may be saying: But, I can’t even program my VCR (or whatever device you’re baffled by now-a-days)!
Read on to find out why it’s so important that you learn HTML.
HTML5 is nothing to be afraid of.
If you can type, you can write basic HTML5, as you’ll see in next week’s newsletter.
But, why should you even bother to try to learn HTML5?
Think about all the different things you do involving words.
- Do you send email? All those words you write are being converted automatically into HTML.
- Do you blog? Guess what: WordPress (or whatever blogging platform you’re using) is writing HTML for you behind the scenes.
- Do you work for a company with a website that you need to update? Your content management system currently writes HTML for you.
The biggest reason that you need to know a little HTML5 is that all of these programs that are writing HTML for you are often doing it very badly. This is the cause of much frustration for you when you can’t place that image just where you want it or when a link doesn’t turn out to be a link.
A very basic understanding of HTML5 will help you fix annoying problems in your website text, email newsletters, and anywhere you write online. This will save you HOURS of precious time.