Last week in class we talked about “survival HTML”—knowing at least enough HTML to be able to troubleshoot your posts when the Visual Editor in WordPress has failed you and you need to dive into the Text side, or similar situations with widgets or a wonky theme. A couple of resources if you want to explore that further:

• HTML Dog has some well-written tutorials covering all the basic HTML elements and Intermediate and Advanced sections as well.
• W3Schools isn’t quite as cleverly written, but they have a “Try It Yourself” button built into every page that lets you work with the tags in an interactive editor/browser.