The Importance of Understanding HTML and CSS in Web Design

As someone who is passionate about web design, I have to admit that there was a time when I thought I could design websites without knowing the basics of HTML and CSS. But, as it turned out, that was not the case. While services like Wix and WordPress make web designing easier for the user, they don't necessarily mean everybody has the skill and the eye to design a good website.

I remember learning HTML back in high school, and it was an incredible feeling when I created my first HTML file in Notepad on Windows XP. Seeing the code transform into something visual was amazing, even if it was just a basic example of what coding could do. But, as websites became more complex today, I realized that knowing HTML and CSS is essential for any aspiring web designer.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that everyone knows how to build a website, simply because they use services like Wix or WordPress. But, let's face it, just having the tools doesn't mean you're going to do a good job with them. Web designing is not just about using the right software; it's also about knowing good layouts, design composition, and balance. It's about understanding visual weight, text sizes, and image sizes, among other things.

There's another misconception that if someone uses Wix or WordPress, they're not a web designer. But, I strongly disagree with this statement. Just because you use these services doesn't mean you don't have the skills and expertise to design a good website. In fact, it's often easier for beginners to start with these platforms because they provide an intuitive interface and a wide range of templates to choose from.

However, if someone wants to take their web designing to the next level, they need to learn HTML and CSS. These coding languages are the foundation of web design, and without them, you're just playing with pixels and colors. Learning HTML and CSS takes time and practice, but it's worth it in the long run.

Finally, I want to address the issue of people being hostile towards others who choose different platforms or tools for their web design needs. Why should it matter what someone else uses? It's not affecting anyone else; it's only affecting you. If you're passionate about web design and want to create something amazing, don't be afraid to experiment with different tools and platforms.

The Power of Choice

Ultimately, the choice is yours when it comes to designing websites. You have the power to choose between using a service like Wix or WordPress, or taking the time to learn HTML and CSS from scratch. And, if you're going to use one of these services, I say go for it! They offer so many benefits, including ease of use, affordability, and an intuitive interface.

However, if you want to take your web designing to the next level, investing in learning HTML and CSS is worth it. You'll have the freedom to create something truly unique and customized to your needs. And, with the right skills, you can work on any platform or tool you choose.

Conclusion

In conclusion, knowing HTML and CSS is essential for anyone who wants to design websites effectively. While services like Wix and WordPress make web designing easier for the user, they don't necessarily mean everybody has the skill and eye to design a good website. The choice is yours when it comes to designing websites; you have the power to choose between using a service or learning HTML and CSS from scratch. Whatever your decision may be, I encourage you to keep exploring and experimenting with different tools and platforms until you find what works best for you.

Final Thoughts

If you're interested in building a website using Wix, I invite you to do so! It's free to get started, and as far as I'm concerned, you never have to pay a dollar. Just sign up for an account, link your website below, and I'll critique it in a friendly way in a future video. And, if you use the link provided, I'll receive a little kickback that helps me as a content creator.

Disclaimer: The author is an affiliate of Wix.com, which means they may earn a commission if you sign up using their link. However, this has no effect on my ability to provide honest and unbiased advice on web design.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday's video is about one of my favorite things in the world and that would be web design hello guys warrior david frackie here from davidfran.co that is a squarespace website that i designed myself and key word there designed what classifies a web designer now i'm making this video purely for the purpose to defend anyone who prefers to design websites using a cms in other words a content management system like wordpress like squarespace like wix like weebly i know nothing about weebly but apparently it's pretty good but that's the thing we have the choices of all these platforms and all these tools yet there are always those individuals who say david bill jack cindy whatever your name is why don't you just hand code the website yourself you cannot call yourself a web designer if you use something like wix or squarespace well my question to you is why not we all have different choices so to start out this video i am going to read the exact definition of web designer that i found online here we go here we go ready a web designer is someone who prepares content for the web this role is mainly related to the styling and layout of pages with content including text and images web designers use many technologies but commonly rely on hypertext and hypermedia resources including html css and additional web design tools so this is what i got to say next and i have my notes right in front of me so i don't forget tools like wix squarespace and wordpress they all exist for a reason because not everybody knows how to hand code a website do i know how to hand code an extremely basic website yes of course that's what i learned in high school years ago but when it comes to designing a complex website with a ton of images and a ton of text and a ton of features and contact forms and animations i much prefer to go the roots of squarespace wordpress and or wix because while all the backend work is done for me and that gives me more time to concentrate on what truly matters and that's the forefront the actual content what the visitor is going to be seeing do you honestly think when somebody goes to a site like youtube that they're thinking about the back end like ooh i wonder how much bandwidth is being transferred right now from this server it is server and vice versa no no no no no users don't give a about that stuff users just care about what's in front of them now i'm not going to call myself the average consumer because i'm not i consider myself a prosumer i use the tools that i have access to to make money hence this video i'm getting paid not to make this video but i'm getting paid with this video with advertising revenue and perhaps you'll sign up using my wix affiliate link at the end of this video and well in turn i make money off that sale okay so backing up a bit i like to use this analogy whenever someone brings up convenience as if it's a bad thing would you rather do a math problem on paper or use a calculator now you can do either one for both good reasons number one you can do a math problem on paper because that teaches you how to solve that problem and well it's a step-by-step process that is what we learned in school is it not but then as you get older and you're busier in life and you just want to save time and save money for that matter wouldn't you much rather use a calculator because the calculator is going to do work for you of course you would i don't know anyone in the right mind who would want to multiply 1 million 268 512 times 56 on paper on paper who does that when we have the ease and the convenience of something like a calculator and guys honestly it's no different than hand coding or making a website using a cms some people prefer that long tedious process but you're just like you and myself you care about our time and care about making money with that time because let's face it the phrase time is money that's true well we're going to use a calculator however and i have this my next note it doesn't hurt to build knowledge in a variety of skills i am very well versed in wordpress squarespace and eventually wix wix is my newest cms that i'm currently using but i will be learning more about that over time as i naturally use it but with that said it's extremely important that you have skills in other areas especially html and css you should not be designing websites for a living if you do not know the basic skills of html and css now thankfully i was lucky enough to learn html back in high school and i'm pretty sure that's the class that got me into web design in general i will never forget the feeling when i created an html file in notepad on windows i think it was like windows xp back then and i saved the file and i opened it in ie i guess it was internet explorer and i saw my results go from code to something like visual format and as basic as that is that's amazing that you can take code and turn it into something visual but again with websites being so complex today you're much better off using a service like wix or wordpress because it saves you a ton of time but then again there are users out there who prefer to hand code that and if you do respect i mean i do a lot in my life nowadays from youtube videos to web design to blogging to vlogging so yeah if i'm gonna save time and money then yeah i'm gonna do just that so no i do not code my own websites from scratch but i do know a lot about css and html to the point where i can make edits that the average person would never be able to do without learning that skill to begin with okay so let's rewind to the beginning of this video where i say not everybody knows how to build a website okay so do you honestly think if i called out my mom or my dad right now and said hey mom hey dad why don't you build the website real quick and i'll check it out by friday they will be like david i don't know the first thing about designing websites because that's not what they do and well honestly that's a great example just because services like wix wordpress and squarespace make web designing easier for the user it doesn't necessarily mean everybody has the skill and the eye to design a good website because guys come on let's face it that's like you handing me a toolbox and saying that i'm suddenly an architect no i cannot build a good table to save my life and believe me i've seen some ugly ugly websites out there designed using wordpress squarespace and wix just because you have the tools it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to do a good job with those tools the tools are just the beginning the rest and honestly 99 of the process comes down to you the designer not everybody knows good layouts not everybody knows good design composition rule of thirds visual weight text sizes having to balance with image sizes it's a whole process so yeah don't even try telling me just because someone uses squarespace or wix that doesn't mean that they're not a web designer because you cannot be more wrong and finally stop being so hostile why are people so hostile why does person a give a about person b and what they use does it really matter why don't you worry about yourself and you keep hand coding your websites or you keep designing your websites with wix because it's not affecting me it's not affecting others it's only affecting yourself you have a very negative outlook on life if you're gonna personally and professionally for that matter insults others based on their choices okay so i have some examples here final cut pro 10 or premiere who gives a they both do a good job playstation or xbox who cares they both play games and they do a great job at it spotify or apple music who cares each platform literally offers millions of songs to choose from and speaking of choosing from that's just the point of this video you have the choice you have the power you have the ability to create stuff to choose stuff to choose things services platforms whatever based on your liking based on your skill sets so with that said i invite you build a website using wix it's 100 free to get started and as far as i'm concerned i don't think you ever have to pay a dollar you just have to use a dot wix domain but with that said if you don't want to use a dot wix domain then just sign up for an actual paid account on wix i promise you it will be worth it and while if you do sign up please link your website right below and i will critique you in a friendly way in a future video where i collectively take your website and compare them one by one my link is right below disclaimer i am an affiliate so if you use that link i get a little kickback but that directly helps me as a content creator and i could not appreciate it anymore so guys thank you so much for watching the point of today's video is to just inspire you get creative get out there and create something kick ass thank you so much watching and i'll see you next time youtoday's video is about one of my favorite things in the world and that would be web design hello guys warrior david frackie here from davidfran.co that is a squarespace website that i designed myself and key word there designed what classifies a web designer now i'm making this video purely for the purpose to defend anyone who prefers to design websites using a cms in other words a content management system like wordpress like squarespace like wix like weebly i know nothing about weebly but apparently it's pretty good but that's the thing we have the choices of all these platforms and all these tools yet there are always those individuals who say david bill jack cindy whatever your name is why don't you just hand code the website yourself you cannot call yourself a web designer if you use something like wix or squarespace well my question to you is why not we all have different choices so to start out this video i am going to read the exact definition of web designer that i found online here we go here we go ready a web designer is someone who prepares content for the web this role is mainly related to the styling and layout of pages with content including text and images web designers use many technologies but commonly rely on hypertext and hypermedia resources including html css and additional web design tools so this is what i got to say next and i have my notes right in front of me so i don't forget tools like wix squarespace and wordpress they all exist for a reason because not everybody knows how to hand code a website do i know how to hand code an extremely basic website yes of course that's what i learned in high school years ago but when it comes to designing a complex website with a ton of images and a ton of text and a ton of features and contact forms and animations i much prefer to go the roots of squarespace wordpress and or wix because while all the backend work is done for me and that gives me more time to concentrate on what truly matters and that's the forefront the actual content what the visitor is going to be seeing do you honestly think when somebody goes to a site like youtube that they're thinking about the back end like ooh i wonder how much bandwidth is being transferred right now from this server it is server and vice versa no no no no no users don't give a about that stuff users just care about what's in front of them now i'm not going to call myself the average consumer because i'm not i consider myself a prosumer i use the tools that i have access to to make money hence this video i'm getting paid not to make this video but i'm getting paid with this video with advertising revenue and perhaps you'll sign up using my wix affiliate link at the end of this video and well in turn i make money off that sale okay so backing up a bit i like to use this analogy whenever someone brings up convenience as if it's a bad thing would you rather do a math problem on paper or use a calculator now you can do either one for both good reasons number one you can do a math problem on paper because that teaches you how to solve that problem and well it's a step-by-step process that is what we learned in school is it not but then as you get older and you're busier in life and you just want to save time and save money for that matter wouldn't you much rather use a calculator because the calculator is going to do work for you of course you would i don't know anyone in the right mind who would want to multiply 1 million 268 512 times 56 on paper on paper who does that when we have the ease and the convenience of something like a calculator and guys honestly it's no different than hand coding or making a website using a cms some people prefer that long tedious process but you're just like you and myself you care about our time and care about making money with that time because let's face it the phrase time is money that's true well we're going to use a calculator however and i have this my next note it doesn't hurt to build knowledge in a variety of skills i am very well versed in wordpress squarespace and eventually wix wix is my newest cms that i'm currently using but i will be learning more about that over time as i naturally use it but with that said it's extremely important that you have skills in other areas especially html and css you should not be designing websites for a living if you do not know the basic skills of html and css now thankfully i was lucky enough to learn html back in high school and i'm pretty sure that's the class that got me into web design in general i will never forget the feeling when i created an html file in notepad on windows i think it was like windows xp back then and i saved the file and i opened it in ie i guess it was internet explorer and i saw my results go from code to something like visual format and as basic as that is that's amazing that you can take code and turn it into something visual but again with websites being so complex today you're much better off using a service like wix or wordpress because it saves you a ton of time but then again there are users out there who prefer to hand code that and if you do respect i mean i do a lot in my life nowadays from youtube videos to web design to blogging to vlogging so yeah if i'm gonna save time and money then yeah i'm gonna do just that so no i do not code my own websites from scratch but i do know a lot about css and html to the point where i can make edits that the average person would never be able to do without learning that skill to begin with okay so let's rewind to the beginning of this video where i say not everybody knows how to build a website okay so do you honestly think if i called out my mom or my dad right now and said hey mom hey dad why don't you build the website real quick and i'll check it out by friday they will be like david i don't know the first thing about designing websites because that's not what they do and well honestly that's a great example just because services like wix wordpress and squarespace make web designing easier for the user it doesn't necessarily mean everybody has the skill and the eye to design a good website because guys come on let's face it that's like you handing me a toolbox and saying that i'm suddenly an architect no i cannot build a good table to save my life and believe me i've seen some ugly ugly websites out there designed using wordpress squarespace and wix just because you have the tools it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to do a good job with those tools the tools are just the beginning the rest and honestly 99 of the process comes down to you the designer not everybody knows good layouts not everybody knows good design composition rule of thirds visual weight text sizes having to balance with image sizes it's a whole process so yeah don't even try telling me just because someone uses squarespace or wix that doesn't mean that they're not a web designer because you cannot be more wrong and finally stop being so hostile why are people so hostile why does person a give a about person b and what they use does it really matter why don't you worry about yourself and you keep hand coding your websites or you keep designing your websites with wix because it's not affecting me it's not affecting others it's only affecting yourself you have a very negative outlook on life if you're gonna personally and professionally for that matter insults others based on their choices okay so i have some examples here final cut pro 10 or premiere who gives a they both do a good job playstation or xbox who cares they both play games and they do a great job at it spotify or apple music who cares each platform literally offers millions of songs to choose from and speaking of choosing from that's just the point of this video you have the choice you have the power you have the ability to create stuff to choose stuff to choose things services platforms whatever based on your liking based on your skill sets so with that said i invite you build a website using wix it's 100 free to get started and as far as i'm concerned i don't think you ever have to pay a dollar you just have to use a dot wix domain but with that said if you don't want to use a dot wix domain then just sign up for an actual paid account on wix i promise you it will be worth it and while if you do sign up please link your website right below and i will critique you in a friendly way in a future video where i collectively take your website and compare them one by one my link is right below disclaimer i am an affiliate so if you use that link i get a little kickback but that directly helps me as a content creator and i could not appreciate it anymore so guys thank you so much for watching the point of today's video is to just inspire you get creative get out there and create something kick ass thank you so much watching and i'll see you next time you\n"