From the Sky News Online induction pack:
“Your stories appear on the web thanks to HTML, the computer language. Fortunately you need to know very little about how it works.”
There. Simple. What follows that statement is a brief breakdown of the coding needed to make hyperlinks and paragraphs. You can learn it in a second. Which means, ladies and gents, no j-school should spend longer than one session a year teaching HTML.
Just to emphasise:
“Your stories appear on the web thanks to HTML, the computer language. Fortunately you need to know very little about how it works.”
Got it? Good!
…thanks for telling me what I already knew. That I’ve spent 3 hours a week for the last two years wasting my life.
score.
Just three hours a week? I’ve spent the last three years of my life by doing a Journalism degree!
Oh my, that doesn’t make any sense at all! What I meant to say was:
Just three hours a week? I’ve wasted the last three YEARS of my life by doing a Journalism degree!
Perhaps that’s why it has been a waste of time – you would think they would have mentioned that you should read what you write before you press submit!