Learning HTML for Kids!
It’s really a bit amazing that Learning HTML for Kids has been going since the late 90s. During these many years, people throughout the world, kids and adults alike, have written to express how the tutorial helped. Teachers have used it to teach HTML in their classroom and even some folks have written to tell me this is where they started to learn for their new careers! It’s been fun to hear from you all and to know that I’ve made a difference.
To be honest, it all started with my son who was in fifth grade in 1998. I had been designing webpages for a couple of years by then. His teacher was big on science, math and technology. So I thought I’d put together a short tutorial to help the kids understand HTML.
These were the infant days. In fact, the language of HTML had been written by Tim Berners-
In fact, there was already a basic mark-
Things started to move along rather quickly after that. Mosaic, another browser, came out in 1992. Netscape was released a couple of years later, which changed everything. Netscape became the premier browser and people took notice. Then in 1995 Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer.
It was about this time, when I started to get involved with websites. I owned an advertising and public relations agency at the time. I catered to small-
It was a hard hurdle for me, especially since I am a creative type, not a techie type. But I struggled and learned the code. In time, I was creating sites and clients were happy. To be honest, those early sites were more like on-
One day, I thought if I can learn this mark-
Today, I no longer run my ad agency (got very ill in 2005). Instead, I teach drawing and painting to adults through the local community college and my studio.
My son is now a young man who writes and designs websites and is studying to be a physician. He came to me recently and asked if I would review the old tutorial again because it was rather out of date. Although I’m mighty busy with my new “passion,” I agreed to rewrite Learning HTML for Kids with an update.
Yes, things have indeed changed. Today we can use editors to write entire sites (I used one for this tutorial). But one thing hasn’t changed, you still need to know and hopefully understand the code to move on to other higher mark-
Thank you for all your support all these years. Learning HTML for Kids may have been my gift to the world, but the world has actually handed it back to me with many, many blessings.
Hope you enjoy this new version.
Jill Jeffers Goodell
A big fat Thank You!