Geocities and Neopets didn’t teach us HTML and CSS(christianheilmann.com)
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Geocities and Neopets didn’t teach us HTML and CSS
https://christianheilmann.com/2021/01/21/geocities-and-neopets-didnt-teach-us-html-and-css/
https://christianheilmann.com/2021/01/21/geocities-and-neopets-didnt-teach-us-html-and-css/
Personally I learned HTML through General Assembly (though I remember it being free) and didn't really use it for a couple years. Eventually I had an application (in the sense of something to which to apply HTML, not one of those godawful electron webapps) for my knowledge and just fashioned my site out of <P>s, a <TITLE>, and the appropriate <HTML>, <BODY>, <HEAD>, and closing tag.
That's all most people should need! If a webpage is just text without any images it shouldn't need dividers, buttons, sliders, GDPR notices (why the hell are you tagging my browser when I'm trying to read your blog?), or a ton of empty space. If you need margins add a stylesheet and if you need pretty colors that's pretty easy.
I write my HTML by hand, in a terminal text editor, and save and refresh Firefox to view the updated work. And it works! Really well in fact. When I wanna make a new page I just `cp [the smallest file here] [new file]` and change around the title, canonical link, and header. It's lacking in terms of weird meta tags for Twitter and Facebook but I don't really want people linking to my stuff from those useless sites anyway. Every image has alt text, every page works decently in Lynx, and I'm quite happy with it. If you have to spend time on every line of HTML you quickly learn to stop adding useless code to your website.