The Only HTML Guide That You’ll Ever Need

From Guy Kawasaki:

A few years ago I used a Countryman E6i headset microphone to make a speech, and it was so good that I bought one to bring it when I make a speech. In addition to the sound quality, I noticed another benefit: Bringing my own Countryman impressed AV people, so they took better care of me.

What does this have to do with HTML? Everything. Many bloggers don’t know the first thing about HTML—and maybe they should not have to, but if you provide your posts in HTML to your tech staff, you will impress them. And they will take better care of you too. If you don’t have a tech staff, it’s still better to write in HTML because you great a much greater control of your text.

You may have heard that HTML is a complex language, and this is true if you’re designing a web site. But for blog posts, you only need to know ten or so HTML tags. Also, some word processors enable you to write in “regular” fashion but then save as HTML. You could then provide this file, but your tech staff will hate you because most word processors output God-awful HTML.

You could use a tool like MarsEdit, Ecto, or Qumana. They are vast improvements because you can write your posts and then publish them too. (I use MarsEdit.) But you don’t even have to use these apps. You can write in any word processor or even your email client if you use these ten HTML tags:

  1. Paragraph. The paragraph tag is the one you will use the most. It’s…

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