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By: March 2009 Writing Success Blog Carnival | Writing Success

March 2009 Writing Success Blog Carnival | Writing Success — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:41:39 +0000

[...] Bram presents Writing Skills: Where does HTML fall? posted at Hyper Modern Writing, saying, “More and more freelance writers are getting ahead by [...]

By: Thursday

Thursday — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:08:20 +0000

@Rani, It’s been my experience that the HTML editing options on Blogger are not very intuitive. However, there are some solid tutorials available to walk you through the process.

By: rani

rani — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:31:54 +0000

HTML and knowing something about it is interesting. I just started learning about it, but when I tried to fix something in blogger it did not change.

By: Incurable Disease of Writing

Incurable Disease of Writing — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:21:50 +0000

Just Write Blog Carnival February 13, 2009 Edition…

Welcome to the February 13, 2009 edition of Just Write. It’s with pride and satisfaction I present this week’s carnival; being without power for two weeks didn’t stop the regulars and newcomers from submitting, and we have …

By: Nicole Nascenzi

Nicole Nascenzi — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:47:47 +0000

I try to know enough code to be dangerous mostly because I don’t trust programs and want to be able to enter my own code if necessary.

By: Arachne Jericho

Arachne Jericho — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:40:46 +0000

I add in my own tags and usually write straight in HTML. One of the most important reasons is that WYSIWYG editors on the web are usually not all that. (In fact, now that I scan my own blog archives, I see in H2 print, “Visual editors suck.”) They can get in the way of more complex formatting, or even only slightly more complex formatting.

Indeed, formatting and presentation is one of the most important parts of communicating online. If you don’t know how to set headings, or if you don’t know how to create links with fragments, even if you don’t know how to set the alignment of images or flow around them, your ability to communicate online is more limited, where formatting can actually affect how involved your readers are.

Plus a lot of embedded stuff requires HTML. The world of multimedia on the web and all that.

I think these days it’s extra important to get a good dose of CSS, because CSS is far more flexible than HTML and can be cleaner, too (and re-usable).

Still, for most things on the web, straight text is fine; but if you want to do more for whatever reason, you need more knowledge under your belt.

I actually wrote a very simple and tiny series (that I should expand but have not yet done so, and it’s been quite some time…) called HTML for Dummies. The first two and maybe the third contain things that are nice to know for writers; anything else I think isn’t necessary as far as nice basics are concerned.

By: thursdayb (Thursday Bram)

thursdayb (Thursday Bram) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:31:18 +0000

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Freelance writers: how important of a skill is HTML for you? [link to post]

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