HTML Code

It is important for web designers to be able to know and use HTML code even though many sophisticated web-authoring softwares are available. Expression Web and Dreamweaver are both softwares that can allow for a faster website-creating process, but even these programs can have their flaws. In class the other day, our teacher provided an excellent example for when knowing HTML code is useful. She was editing the class wiki and wanted to edit the font. She tried to bold, then un-bold, but nothing seemed to change. When she went into the site's code, she recognized that the wiki was written in a font that always appeared to be bold so she was able to figure out why it wasn't working. Luckily, this scenario was only for a class wiki, but had a similar situation occurred with a corporate webpage, someone's job (or even many jobs) could have been on the line.