As digital products take over the publishing field, copy editors and other publishing pros will find that adding basic HTML and XML skills to their toolkit puts them in demand.
In the April edition of the Copyediting Newsletter, my “Technically Speaking” column focuses on familiarizing yourself with this in-demand coding language. (Should that be languageS for these conjoined twins?)
“5 Ways Copyeditors Can Learn HTML and XML” (on the defunct Copyediting) will get you started learning HTML. For a glimpse of what HTML does, and some things you can do right away, read the newsletter.
ADDING resources:
- Thimble, an open-source web design/code tool from Mozilla. Full of tutorials and starter projects.
- Technologies for indexing ebooks, and considerations thereof.
- Twitter handle full of HTML resources.
- John Esperian’s HTML primer for webpages.
