HTML is the language in which most of the front-end of any website is developed. This will be supplemented by other languages and scripts like PHP or Javascript, but HTML is the one that is used most predominantly.

These days hardly anyone really writes "code" in HTML. There are plenty of powerful tools like Dreamweaver which are drag and drop tools called WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) where you can graphically insert tables, charts etc. and the tool will generate the HTML code for you behind the scenes.

Despite this, if you really want to do a good job of building your websites and not depend on others, you should have at least some functional knowledge of HTML. You should at least be able to do a little bit of coding in HTML.

We look at the main reasons for this here.

1. The WYSIWYG editors are just not powerful enough: The primary reason for learning HTML is there is no tool that is powerful enough to completely eliminate the need for writing HTML code. For you to know nothing about HTML and still generate web pages that meet your needs is definitely possible, however the WYSIWYG editor should be as powerful as the language itself!

As you can imagine this is really hard and there are no products on the market which can generate HTML for you perfectly. Some of them are just great enablers for generating HTML code but can't replace your need to learn a little bit of HTML coding on your own.

2. Making maintenance easy: Not only will HTML knowledge be helpful in developing a website but maintenance becomes easy too. For example, sometimes you will just need to italicize and bold some text in your pages, or create a hyperlink to some other website which opens up in a new window instead of opening up in the same page. These are everyday tasks that webmasters need to perform. You will not want to depend on someone or pay someone else to do this kind of 5 minute job.

3. Makes your life easy: HTML is a real simple language to learn and believe it or not sometimes it is just easy to open the HTML code editor of your WYSIWYG tool. The classic example is matching the background color of a new website with your existing website. It is much easier to open the source code of your existing website, lookup the color code and then input it in the HTML code of the new page, than to try to match it through the WYSIWYG editor.

4. Make changes anywhere: If you do not know any HTML then you will be dependent on your WYSIWYG editor to make the slightest of changes. This means that if you do not have the PC or laptop on which the editor is installed, you can't make the change right away. You will be freed of all such constraints if you can code in HTML because then you will be able to code anywhere with just a simple note pad editor.

In conclusion the advantages and benefits that you get from learning how to code in HTML are just enormous and open up great possibilities for you to run a successful website.

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