The Importance of HTML

HTML coding brings me back to days as a high school student in advanced computer science. Honestly, I chose this class because it was the only weighted technology course I could take, as I was required to take at least one computer-related class. What I didn’t realize was how difficult the class would be. No, I did not walk away with a new-found love for C++, nor do I think the skills I obtained in that class will ever help me again. What I did discover, however, was an appreciation for the people who do enjoy computer coding and those who create the everyday programs we all know and love. Never before had I realized how complicated computer language could be. That being said, I am eternally grateful for the Microsoft Expression Web program; I’m not sure I could survive another lesson in online coding. But I know there are many other people out there who live for HTML and other codes, and even with the aid of advanced software, still chose to memorize every individual number and character for its function and use them together to tinker with future creations. HTML specifically builds internet web pages. I, for one, can really appreciate all the hard work a designer using HTML puts into his site; I really do know how amazingly complex it all is. Though it might seem easier to use Microsoft Expression or others like it for simple web designs, it is important that the pros still know and understand the HTML language. The software programs can only help one for so long, though after awhile, the limitations of that program would soon be noticed. For instance, font color and style has apparently been difficult to work with in Microsoft Expression. It of course isn’t impossible to do this via Expression, but things become increasingly difficult if it is only a small piece of data you want to change. As far as it can work, software programs similar to these can only function the way the designers of them think you’d want it to function. But because there are infinite possibilities in computer design, a software program cannot keep up. This is where knowing the language of computers is a major tool to know. A person working with codes has complete control over the computer and his tasks. Therefore, he is more independent of his predecessors and better able to personally customize the details he wants unique. HTML ultimately opens up doors to possibilities never imagined by the confines of Microsoft Expression. Though I understand the importance of Expression, (the average individual could never build a web page without it) I honestly believe that the true computer expert ought to know the basics. While the rest of us can rely on computer software, it is these experts who must learn and practice the computer’s own language, and hopefully continue to produce more programs, all based on HTML of course, to further advance the technological world.