HTML

html(hypertext markup language) is not a code, it is only a language for placing tags, or place holders for objects. object can refer to images, tables or text. now new versions have emerged and you will find that learning html is not enough. it is like having a can of drinks without designs on it to attract buyers.

xml, asp, dhtml, cgi, javascripts, vbscripts are decorators. they decorate your html pages and therefore entice viewers. they not only serves as a form of animation or graphical manipulation, they also play an important role in database and storage managing. why would others come to your site now and them without benefitting?

so here we come to a conculsion that interactivity is required to keep in touch with the customers. you want to make a site? you want to show of how good you are in html? well...they won't be impressed if they cannot participate. if it is just a family page, then, well, a really simple one will do, but if you want it international, then programming and scripting skills are the neccessities.

you know www.neopets.com, the kiddy site. how about www.blizzard.com? and some www.hotmail.com? what make people keep going back again and again? some of the similarities are that they are up-to-date. keeping your site up to date is important because you don't want people to think that you are abandoning your site. they won't come back anymore. another thing is providing services. this is abit difficult to do because it depends on your pocket. providing a forum may mean having to add an extra 1 GB space on the server, and that is money. time is also money. to write those codes, you need time, plenty of time(especially for debugging), so you must commit into it.

given the above situations, learning to make a website for fun and not for real is just a waste of energy. however, it is never stupid to learn something more!