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This article would give you an answer for the question as to why do we need to learn HTML. This would rather be a long answer and would even surprise you, but by the end of this article you would understand it. Initially you need to know what HTML stands for; it is nothing but ‘Hyper Text Markup Language’. It is a kind of programming language that would help you to view the web pages over the net. If there is no HTML then all the text that we would read would look as a plain text and at times even very dull. It opened a new world when it was been created. The one advantage here would be for not only viewing the content but it is even been used for creating the content.
In the beginning if you wished to design the web page, you had an option of the limited notepad and even the imagination, as there were no HTML editors. Nexus were the first to get the HTML editors. But it was an editor browser. This was written in the object C by Tim – Berners Lee. It would be primitive standards in these days as it is not required to type the HTML codes from the scratch. Nowadays number of editors are been coming and going. One of the most popular among them is the Front page, which is the Microsoft product and the other one is the Dreamweaver that is been written by the Macromedia. Both these products are very excellent. But, both have their own bad and good points. But both does everything what you would require as far as even the HTML coding.
Then why would you bother to learn HTML? The most compelling reason and one that you also require is there are no editors who are perfect and they can’t even do everything that we want. They do add in some unnecessary codes. They would even crash the system and some annoying things would start repeating every time. You would even be placed in the situation where your editor would not be in a condition to give you the result that you would require. So what to do?
If you would not know much about HTML then there would be two options. The first one is go find someone who would have good knowledge in it and at the same time you also need to see that he would not charge you for a leg and arm in order to fix the code. The other option and one of the best options would be, learning it. You would feel happy when you start learning it. The one thing is you would feel scared at the time of learning it. But after you do this, it would save tons of the heartaches while you start designing the next page along with fancy editor. For this you need to have your own mind. Once you learn this you can yourself start creating your own web pages.