HTML for Niteflirt step-by-step: Why you need to learn html

There are a lot of reasons why you need to learn html;

• There’s no other way to format a listing. Niteflirt requires html for formatting a listing.
• You want to do it for free, rather than paying somebody to make your listings or buying software.
• Html is not rocket science. It may look like incomprehensible gobbledegook on the source code page, but writing it is just applying a series of simple rules.
• Doing your first html page will make you feel like a rocket scientist. Mastering a new technique just makes you feel brilliant.
• There are so many free editors you can’t figure out which to download.
• Learning to use a free html editor is as hard in many ways as learning html. It can be extremely confusing. Not only that, but you will probably go through a series of html editors, get stuck, and try another one. The amount of effort involved with doing that is greater than learning simple html.
• Code editors write for the web. Niteflirt has a special type of html that will not accept many things that will work fine on a webpage of your own.
• Code editors add stuff to your code to make changes. If you play with it a lot, you can end up going over the Niteflirt character limit while your listing is still quite small.
• Code editors are intended to save you work by making decisions for you. Some of the things they decide you want are not things you want, and you may not be able to change it back without going into the code to delete what the editor put in.
• Even if you don’t care about formatting, you’ll need html to insert photos and graphic images into your listing.
• When you buy a purchased template, it usually comes with instructions that assume you understand something about html. If you do not, you may be unable to install the template and put in your content. Buying a template means you are saving money by agreeing to set it up yourself. The designer may be willing to help you if she has time. Some designers don’t have the time, and in any case if you don’t know any html, the designer isn’t obligated to spend unlimited time teaching it to you so that you will understand how to follow standard setup instructions.
• Troubleshooting your own work: when things go wrong, as they will, you need to be able to figure out what the problem is and fix it quickly, so you can get your listing working again.
• If you can make a simple Niteflirt listing, you can make a simple webpage.

Okay, I’m sure there’s a bunch more reasons, and if I think of them after the caffeine takes effect, I will edit them in. But right now I want to introduce a little project to you. I’ve made a “listing” on Niteflirt with no html whatever. You will certainly recognize the type. Some of you may have listings that still look like this.

We’ll be fixing this up step by step. This will not be a complete web design course, or even a complete html course. It will teach you what you need to know to fix your listing up pretty.

Next chapter: titles and paragraphs.