Before my toolkit class talking about HTML, I only used HTML to add some images to my BBS posts in order to make them more interesting. But every-time, I made mistakes when I tried to write the image HTML, as I didn’t know how HTML works and the basic rules of written HTML. For many times, I just forgot to put “/” or other signs, which messed up the whole process. It is so complicated for me to understand how HTML is written to make a website work.

In fact, when I knew that I would learn HTML in my toolkit class, I was doubt why we should learn it when there are so many different ways of designing a web which are much easier if compared with HTML. Using HTML seems a little bit out of date. After the toolkit class, though I know I still cannot write HTML to design a whole web page, at least, I have some clear idea about HTML and at least I can understand HTML page. I can figure out where is the title, headline, image, paragraph, etc. Thanks to that wonderful HTML tutorial page HTML Dog, which makes the way of understanding and writing HTML much clearer.

However, I am still kind of doubting how far HTML can work to design a web. I have no idea about the new technologies in web design field. But when I told my friends that I was learning HTML, they reacted with a “surprising” face, asking why I was learning this “out-of-date”web design method. In class, we were talking about the basic functions about HTML. But the sample web page we made looks a little bit simple, which made me question how far HTML can do in designing a web. Can we create any kind of web page as complicated as we want by HTML?