# Who is good at HTML?
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**Created:** [February 6, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-is-good-at-html/24169 "2007-02-06T16:00:46Z")\
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**Author:**  [@dozr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dozr)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-is-good-at-html/24169/26 "2007-02-06T21:17:54Z")
> [@jetlounge](#):
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> honestly they should let him use something like Frontpage or Dreamweaver…this is why younger people are so ill-equipped for the workforce…
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> i mean really…teaching to ‘code’ in HTML in plain text in Notepad…give me a break. and fwiw, HTML is far from ‘code.’
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> HTML should be a few day primer…then spend an appropriate amount of time on css, javascript, jsp or asp. who would ever write html pages on their own?
Backend code and frontend code are much different areas of expertise in today’s web. Look around, there is just as much of a need (if not more) for standards compliant frontend developers as there is for backend developers. No longer can we deal with shitty dreamweaver produced HTML, frontend is as important if not more important than anything else. Learning correct semantic web-standard xHTML / CSS / DOM is a big deal, and should have as much time spent on it as anything else.
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