Intro to Website Creation using Notenik ↑

Introduction

Start by reading the HTML for people Introduction.

I agree entirely with Blake’s points about HTML simply being the document format for the web, and something that everyone should have some familiarity with.

I’ll go a little further, though.

Many of the modern technologies we use are entirely flat and opaque. We are presented with a nice-looking user interface, with no ability at all to peer beneath the surface to see what’s going on below, no ability to actually understand how something works, no ability to conceptualize how things might be tweaked or rearranged to make them into something new, something better, something more suited to our needs.

But, thankfully, HTML and the web are different.

All of the websites we see, all of the digital content we consume, is created using HTML.

But HTML, as we will see, can be used to create very small, simple (but still satisfying!) things, as well as very complex things,

But the basic building blocks are all the same.

And so, once we understand some of the basics, it allows us to create our own things, but also empowers us as digital citizens, because we now know a little more about how the things around us are being put together.