Friday, January 11, 2008

Myspace and HTML

I learned about HTML by posting on a video game message board when I was in middle school, and that was pretty nerdy back then and is just as nerdy now. But Myspace is less nerdy and is exposing its users to basic HTML. There are even Myspace help sites available for users who want to get really creative, like this site here. Just by playing around with some of the example codes provided on sites like that one you can learn a fair amount about how HTML works. Myspace is a strange place, but it's an educational place too and it's cool that it's teaching internet users from all walks of life, especially kids, HTML. We're lucky that this class is available to us journalists because I think we'll need it just to keep up with our readers/watchers/listeners.

2 comments:

anna said...
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anna said...

oops, messed up a link in that comment.

I also learned HTML at that age in a similar way. I found this Webmonkey site that not only has a nice cheatsheet of HTML tags but a cool step-by-step "teaching tool" that shows you different things, and if you think you've learned it you can practice in a screen they have where there's a piece of internet-stuff on the left that you have to copy by typing the tags etc. into a box on the right.

webmonkey