Programming isn’t an easy stuff usually and people is often scared by even the thought of dealing with some HTML code. Actually, once you get a few basic principles, HTML and CSS turn out to be really easy to understand, create and modify. Moreover, you just need a text editor (like TextEdit on the Mac or Notepad for Windows) to work with them, nothing else.

If you know how an HTML page is designed, you instantly acquire the power to customize it heavily. Sandvox Pro, RapidWeaver and WordPress – the three apps I’m developing for – all let you change their designs somehow, so even if you rely on a third party app for your website you still can make your own changes and gain some more freedom.

I found this introductory video which seems to me the perfect way to start if you don’t know absolutely anything about HTML and CSS: it’s a kind of “Lesson One”. It’s 32 minutes long, all the topics are simply explained and at the end you could even write your own website from scratch all by yourself. There’s a download version too, iTunes ready.

Take a look and have fun:

» CSS-Tricks: HTML & CSS – The VERY Basics

I’ve never been a fan of my own home page (!) so, having a couple of free hours, I decided to try something different. I don’t know if you like it  but in my opinion is much better now.

In the meantime I’m back to my first and true love, WordPress. I completed a full restyling of BombaCarta (a WordPress blog running an unreleased version of BlueRaymond – the original one actually) and I’m so satisfied with it.

A WordPress version of Carbone is ready and waiting for release, but I still have to decide a few things: make it customizable? how? would it have any hope to be sold?

I’ll struggle with these problems a little more, something will come out soon

I wrote a new micro-tutorial about Safari inspector and its use to know more about your webpages’ style. I’m not satisfied with it (it could be clearer), consider it as a draft.

Anyway, it’s here.

Even if you use Sandvox or Rapidweaver, some knowledge about how things work is often useful. I wrote my first tutorial about colors.

Let me know what you think about it: is it too easy? too complicated? useful or useless? What the next tutorial should be about?