HTML Code: Challenge Accepted

Perhaps you, reader, have never looked at HTML code before. I mean really looked at it and tried to decipher the long lines of gobbledegook and symbols that appear meaningless to the untrained eye. If that is the case, then you are like me, a person who has a fairly good understanding of computers as long as the information is in fully-formed English sentences. So when I first looked at this:

my first reaction was this:

and my second reaction was to curl up in a ball and cry, realizing that I was expected to make sense of all those lines of letters and symbols.

I wiped away my tears and picked up the assigned textbook, Sams Teach Yourself HTML, CSS and JavaScript by Julie C. Meloni, and prayed that the information would be given to me in language a non-techie could understand. Within a few minutes I began to make sense of things, and after many careful types on Notepad I created my first successful HTML code. Ironically, I can't figure out how to get the code to translate onto this blog.

Perhaps I'll go cry in the corner again...

Or! I'll rise to the challenge and try to figure out the crazy world of HTML to make my blog do cool and interesting things! I've seen examples where other people have used HTML code to insert cool graphics and effects into their blogs, which may not be entirely necessary for me. I mean, I have pretty much all of the tools I need to do what I intend to do on this blog without typing it in HTML code, don't I? If all else fails, I can hopefully pass my class and add "Experience using HTML codes" to me resume. That's got to count for something, right?