Belying appearances, I used to do HTML back in the days when Netscape ruled the world and IE was two versions from functional. I wasn’t any good back then either – I’m a firm believer in consistency.

Last time I looked at a book was over four years ago and the last time I spent any time pretending to know what I was doing was probably three years ago. But, here I am mussing with HTML again. Mein got, the things you can do now are amazing, but it’s confusing the HTML out of me. Well, I will just have to slowly work away on my notepad and slowly learn again.

Yeah, I work on notepad. It’s an unpretentious little editor. Okay, you can see how sloppy I am with missing classes and too many unclosed tags, bad grammar, etc., etc., etc., but have you seen the crazy code some html editors come up with?! Have you tried to correct it afterwards? There was this one time I had to look at some page and all the cells in all the tables were changed to tables themselves. One part had a rats nest of 21 tables instead of one table with 20 cells.

No doubt, these editor programs are better now, but I prefer my electronic assistant to be dumb – hopefully this will help me learn and be less dumb…. hopefully.

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