I’m curious, does anyone else use just html and css?

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September 18,2021 at 5:42PM UTC

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I’m curious, does anyone else use just html and css? I’ve been learning these coding languages (and really enjoy using them). I like being creative but am unsure where these skills fit in with my field (I'm in marketing).

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Rhianna WeilertSeptember 18,2021 at 6:35PM UTC
My experience has been editing code of existing WordPress websites. I can't imagine you would be writing website code from scratch in a marketing role but it definitely helps to know the basic principles and be able to fine-tune code.
Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her)September 18,2021 at 6:49PM UTC
It might mean you can update copy on static portions of a website, and know how the CSS is holding some of it together without being able to alter it. It might equip you to better participate (as a stakeholder) in a redesign of an internal site, or a client site because you are better able to understand an explanation of how the code works with in modules (why or why not something can happen as part of a build) that have been designated for the build or what it might take to alter those modules (too costly, would erode consistency of the UX). It may enable you to better work with the UX team and in turn, cleaner hands offs to the dev team. Or if you present yourself as someone who likes to code, understands the syntax but isn't planning on coding a site, it may make it easier for you to work across teams.
Sarah DyeSeptember 26,2021 at 2:45AM UTC
HTML & CSS isn't good for creating new things. I agree with lots of the other posts that it is good for update and editing portions of a website just in case you need to do it. However, just knowing a bit of HTML & CSS is going to help you better communicate with web developers and people that work on websites at a company. Knowing how HTML & CSS is going to help you better understand what developers do to build websites so when you need them to fix something for you, you'll be better able to communicate with them what you want done.