
When I was a wee lass, I taught myself HTML because of Neopets. Neopets is a website where you can have digital pets and play games, and it was huge for me and my friends when I was little. For each pet, you got your very own little web page to play around with. A dear friend of mine and I spent a great deal of time working on ours. She’s only gotten better at HTML as time has passed; I think I’ve forgotten a great deal of what I learned. (Any further attempts to learn any other type of coding have absolutely failed.)
Still, I know enough to be able to code posts by hand whenever WordPress is acting up, and I thought it might be nice to provide a refresher for everyone this morning. WordPress, in HTML mode, does provide a great deal of the basic HTML you need for blogging via buttons you simply need to press before and after words, but I think it’s useful to know the coding yourself.
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