Some HTML Required...

I'm finding that being a freelance writer online means that I'm having to learn a little html, its just part of the job description.

Though I enjoy the internet and all its services immensely I kind of got into it for surfing the web and never bothered to learn about computer code of any kind, so picking up html has been a bit hard. Plus many of those easy-to-learn programming books read like car manuals.

Luckily there are a couple of sites that give pertinent bits of html code needed for creating links in articles, image links and creating a link that will open a webpage in a new window.

For readers looking to know here's the html code for creating a link to another site:

Place this code in your blog posts, and there are some forums that allow html, and of course you can place this in the author's bio sections when uploading to Article Directories.The only two parts you need to fill in are the URL section and the keyword section. Highlight those areas and replace the text with your own. For example:

So when you put the link into your post or article it will look like this published: Blogspot The colored text you see is the keyword from the html code.

There's tons more to learn and I just spent an impossible amount of time creating one example. I found a couple of great sites to help newbies learn a little html for use on the web. There is w3schools which is more technical but they have fairly easy to understand examples of html, one byte at a time.

Another site Webmonkey is geared towards kids, which makes it super easy to understand and useful.

Lastly a kudos to Jim Boykin for his article on link building and Recommended Webtools where I found the link to the Webmonkey tutorial.