Did you teach yourself HTML?
 

Or did you already know it before entering the biz?

Or have you perhaps always paid a partner to do HTML for you?

stories please

taught myself back in '97 and still handcode to this day....

learned it myself..still handcode everything so I know what the fuck I am doing.

taught myself html so i could create super leet aol hax0r websites for aol 2.5 !!

around the same time for me... bought a book on how to do html

learned way back in the day. was building sites (shitty ones) back in 94 just wish I had got into the business back then, but I was only 18 and was more focused on getting pussy than promoting it.

Taught myself , started last year. Know I am working on figuring out .php

yea i gradually learned it back when i was like in middle school...

taught myself enough to get by and I use dream weaver for the rest.

I don't know HTML :(

same here. opened a geocities account at lunch time, printed an HTML tutorial and read it during math class. made a video game cheat code site when i got home.

yeah, just learned by looking at the sources of pages.

I taught myself back in 1996 or so. I got a free page on geocities or one of the other free site places and would make changes, and then go through the code and see what changed. After I learned all I could from reading the code I bought a book on it. :)

I taught myself and have moved on to dream weaver but I always go through it again to tidy it up by hand...

Taught myself back in 97 using some book with a bright orange color. Still code all my pages myself in Notepad.

Started back with a Geocities site (/SiliconValley/Way/) can't believe I remember that. Bright green background with huge tables.. haha what an ugly site.

I'd recommend everyone who builds sites to learn HTML and start in Notepad themselves.. you'll be far better down the road :2 cents:

learned it myself. frontpage really helped a lot.

yeah i taught it to myself in 95, in a university lab.

same exactly as me

taught myself in 1997 but too lazy to handcode these days :winkwink:

I like learning things myself.

yes, i did :thumbsup

I make millions for others doing what I do...

I learn HTML all by myself. i read books and practice it before i knew it...i can make a simple web page. :thumbsup

Started back in 96. I tried to use a program called Hot Dog to help teach me but that didn't last long. I just used notepad and I still use notepad to this day, lol.

Mark

i learned html while putting a porn site on tripod

bought dreamweaver and messed around with it. Paid Lessons are quite useless. You tend to forget most of it.

taught myself html when I was 12 or 13, I forget... first I used HOMESTEAD, then GEOCITIES, then finally notepad

made myself my first "Geography" website, always got 100% in computer / website class

but I don't need it nowadays...

its like saying: does a real estate tytan need to know how to build houses well? :Graucho

I got frontpage 2000, and then bought html 4 dummies.

Then I moved into Mastering HTML 4, which is a 30 pound 40$ book. And I still find some of the coolest shit in the 4 dummies book.

My mom bought me a HTML-book when I was ~13-14. Thanks mom.

... without HTML knowledge can't be anybody a good webmaster I think...

yes - I download source codes from sites I like

Taught myself every programming language that I use. I actually got hired to program in C without knowing how and taught myself very quickly on the job!

I learned HTML by using Arachnophilia back in 97.

taught myself html a long time ago. started out making bullshit pages years ago. ran a little punk site for a while. and started from there.

LoL...look at my site.. you can tell. I still don't know it...just do what I can. What little I've learned I did from looking at coding on other sites (mainstream and adult).

when I started a long time ago I barely even knew anything about computers let alone html.. so yep, I'm self taught with everything

I bought a book about HTML:)

I started with HTML back in '99

Learned HTML from the book "The 24 Hour HTML Cafe" back in 97. Then studies the sources of other sites. Still do it all in Notepad.

i was on the Net for probably 6 months, not having any background in computers I assumed to make a webpage took a bunch of geek knowledge. Then for whatever reason I clicked on 'Source' in Netscape one day on a site and took a look - it was all English except for the HTML tags which looked very simple, it dawned on me that this wasn't very complicated stuff. So I found an online HTML tutorial site and within a couple of hours I had my first website up with pictures. Then i got Hotdog to add some bells and whistles like animated test and music. Typical 97 era gaudy website. I got rid of Hotdog fast and went to Notepad and have done everything since with Notepad, I tried Dreamweaver but too many buttons to push.

Got online in 98' and in 99 I made my first site.. a Star Wars fan site. Made it all in geocities and notepad by reading source codes and html help sites.

LoL who would've thought a few years later I'd make a living off HTML and PHP :thumbsup

I still pay webdesigners for my paysites cause I suck at web graphics but I do most of my other work in Namo Webeditor now.

I learned HTML in the crudest way possible.

I got a WebTV shortly after they came out. That was my internet access at home for a year+. After playing around with it's limitations and discovering online pagebuilders several of us in a user group started toying around with making WebTV friendly pages.

To look at the source HTML of a page I had to type it's address into an online HTML validator. This is how I learned the fundamentals of HTML, along with help from online tutorials and pooling knowlege with the others doing the same.

This is before they added copy/cut & paste ability to WebTV in 1997 so I had to had carefully print any coding / scripts I wanted to use in a notebook and type it in to the online editor from that. I quickly learned how important every little ' was.:1orglaugh That's right, to move text/coding around on a page, I had to delete it and type it all back in where I wanted it. I was so happy when they added cc&p to WebTV and even happier when I got a PC at home in 98:)

Many will tell you that WebTV is a piece of crap but I will tell you that if it weren't for it and I had put a PC in the house before it I would likely have used programs to create my earlier pages and I know I would not have gotten such a in-depth "hands on" foundation of HTML.

I've tried several HTML editors over the years but I always went back to Notepad and use only it now.

i taught myself back in 97 or 98. then my senior year of high school i took a webpage class but i knew more than the teacher (and it really wasnt much at the time) and i pretty much taught the other kids in my class when they fucked their shit up.

taught it myself, it's very simple

Tought myself, by viewing sources on pages. Back in the day. :)

I got started when I did some photos for an escort going indie.

The guy she was going to have do her web site started dicking her around.

I was wanting to learn, so I jumped in with Frontpage. A mistake, but I had friends who could help.

Now I handcode using jEdit, use CSS and I am learning to use PHP.

Steady learning, all life long.

I'm not an expert at html, but I tought myself everything I need to know when I entered the biz a while back

i started out with notepad 8 years :)

Taught myself.