Like most noobs to website creation, I made my first site with a wysiwyg program. Yeah, I know…admitting this in print is difficult. It’s like admitting that you still wet the bed. Hey, initially I knew very little Html. CSS and Javascript were like weird lines of shit that I knew did cool stuff.


Weird shit was the motivation for me to learn code. In order for me to simply cut and paste, I had to at least know where to put it. By that process alone, ( and with the help of the internet community), I was able to learn enough code to do some trippy stuff.


I now have a Wordpress site. Wysiwyg is totally out of the question. And you know what? A funny thing has happened on the way to the forum. I’ve actually started to prefer text editing to using a Wysiwyg program. (Can’t exactly use a wysiwyg with PHP anyway) Text editing is actually easier and more refined. Yeah, I still use programs to do simple stuff like embedding a video, but the cool tweaks have to be done with a text editor. I use Notepad++ and it’s more than enough to get the job done.

So, you want to do cool stuff? Learn some code. The resources are all over the net.

<?php
echo '<h1>Ciao</h1>';
echo '<p><h2>jb89149</h2></p>';
?>