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ravi singh
ravi singh
2,404 Points
Posted by ravi singh
ravi singh
2,404 Points

The future of HTML/CSS

Hi There

As a beginner who is investing a lot of precious free time into the above topics I cant help but wonder..With so many build your own websites like Wordpress .Weebly, Wix etc.. around these days, is it still worth learning HTML/ CSS?

While Im having a super great time learning I just wonder this will all be replaced soon

Would love to hear what other people are thinking as well.

Cheers

Ravi

3 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

There are a lot of build your own website packages out there. But those packages still have to be designed. Take WordPress as the example. The default themes are packaged with HTML and CSS files that control how the themes look.

There can be no substitute, in my opinion for knowing how to build and design websites for yourself by hand! :-)

Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 Points
Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 Points

HTML and CSS is a MUST if you are going to be in the web-field. Unless JavaScript will make it the JS way.. which I would say it's safe it wont for the next ten years lol

After you learn HTML and CSS, you can then think what to learn, probably JavaScript and or PHP or Ruby on Rails :) Preprocessors like LESS or Sass etc.. Compas, frameworks, libraries.

Don't rush

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Yes, it's absolutely worth it. Build your own sites targets a different client/market than what a web developer would be targeting.

If that was a concern, it would extend to more than just html/css. You wouldn't want to learn anything about web development at that point. There would be no point to. AI site builders, or drag and drop site builders will never replace developers in enterprise and application level websites and services.