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Old 05-21-2008, 01:25 AM
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Originally Posted by lisa View Post
It's sort of like driving a car. You don't have to know everything about what's under the hood when the car is working fine, but when something goes wrong it's good to have some knowledge of the nuts and bolts on the inside.
I actually like this analogy a lot.

Typically starting out as a designer rather than a coder I found a lot of the time designs weren't actually feasible when coding, there were a few elements that weren't able to be transferred into code, or the design was to intricate or complicated to be coded as I'd initially hoped. So by learning basic HTML as a starting point, it helped me to develop a better sense of what works, I think.

Then of course, the ability to transfer that knowledge into templates themselves (and subsequently open up a wealth of opportunities for auctioning/selling templates) with HTML/CSS came with that.
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