"HTML is used to make websites. It is as simple as that!"

....so says the author of one of these articles- and I, seriously, beg to differ. BUT it is absolutely true, so my only argument would be that it is simply not that simple. These articles introduce us to the nitty gritty of HTML, which up until these articles, I never really looked at as a language. I guess I've always looked at HTML as...numbers, letters and symbols arranged in code...which -duh- is language, just one that we don't use it to speak to each other, we use it to "speak"/communicate to computers!....and basically anything connect through the interweb.

And let me tell ya', I'm not very fluent in HTML, I'm actually very NOT familiar with it at all. I have, however, after taking enough classes here at Tech, gotten down how to link something in HTML..only took me 3 years -(kind of kidding, but not really). Anyways, I am now bound and determined to grok (and rock) web design. I'm much more confident with my visual design skills and this concept of thinking more structurally (for web designing) is probably the hardest aspect of web design for me. It's so hard to wrap my mind around it...or unwrap my mind around it.  One quote that I want to pull from the article is this, "Understand markup as a framework to support your content."

  framework framework framework.  NOT content and appearance, JUST framework.

I need to remember I can try to make it look pretty after I have it's foundation down. Then I can challenge myself with the CSS (cascading style sheets)...I can do this. ---The rest of the articles gave us little tid bits, basically, the basics, of HTML. Here. We. Go.