Most agents have a website that is maintained by some agency. These vary from very boring templates where you have very little control, to sites that give you a wide range of control over every aspect of the site. The problem I have seen most with agents adding content to their websites is that it never quite displays correctly. You might want to set the text to be aligned left, or through a picture into the middle of a text block and have the words wrap around it. I always get asked how to accomplish this by an agent that has “tried everything” and is fairly frustrated.

I say, “Oh, that is fairly simple,” and switch to editing their text block to the “View Source” mode. Most online editors let you do this, with some kind of button that says Code or Source or something similar. Then after a quick bit of CSS code later, everything is formatted the way they want.

To get a little help on how to learn this, I stumbled upon a great tool to help people get started learning all about code. It’s called the HTML Playground and is a great way to visually learn about code and what it does.

With this site, you can look up any HTML tag, read what it does, read about it’s attributes, and see edit it live on the site. This is a great way to get started with HTML coding, because if you are stumped, you can try your code out here and see if you can learn why you are stumped. The best part about it, the site is clean, easy to use and up to date with new web standards. There is nothing worse than learning something, feeling great about it, and then finding out that it is outdated and no longer used.

With that, have fun out there on the playground.