If you were a Tumblr user growing up and yearned to create an amazing theme for your blog to make it unique and you, then maybe you considered learning HTML like I did. Although I wasn’t successful, and still have trouble till this day, I believe a lot of users that wanted to create a unique website or blog needed to learn HTML or get familiar with it. I know the only way to get motivated about HTML is designing something amazing for my website!

Where to start?

Trying to get familiar with HTML started for me by watching instructor Jen Simmons’ HTML Essential Training on LinkedIn Learning. My brain was overloaded with information regarding the 3 main languages of the web, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and the in-depths of elements, blocks, lists, and more that were involved with coding. I recommend watching it in parts as this information can be overwhelming at first! However, despite my brain being fried with information, I was looking forward to learning all that I could to one day try and implement this knowledge onto my own site!

Key words to note:

• HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
  • Defines the content of a site.
• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
  • Defines the styling of a site
• JavaScript
  • Provides interactivity

These are key words you definitely must know for coding your website!

After watching the video by Jen Simmons, I found an informative article by Per Harald Borgen on How to easily create themes with CSS Variables. This goes into how to create themes with CSS and using the CSS variables to create a theme with markup and stylesheet. It goes well with Jen Simmons’ training, as they both talk about the details in the markup and stylesheet in CSS!

Finding more resources:

There are plenty more resources that can be helpful to look into, especially when trying to design a website. Here are some that I found to be insightful and can help you get into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• A Simple Guide to HTML
• The 9 Best Free HTML and CSS Resources to Help You Build Better Emails by Allie Wolff
• HTML For Beginners The Easy Way: Start Learning HTML & CSS Today by Frank Morales
• Tech 101: What is JavaScript? by Scott Morris

There are still many things I would love to do with HTML like executing my knowledge onto my own blog. Playing around with CodePen could also help me understand coding and the headlines, sub-lines, elements, and many more formats that go into it. I hope this was informative to you and if you have any additional resources that could be helpful, please comment down below!