Excuse #3: I'm Not Technical, Don't Know HTML and So On

Here's the next in our "common excuse list".  This one's kind of funny because I'm just the opposite and I think it hurts more than helps.  Anyway, here it is…

Excuse #3: I'm not technical, don't know HTML and so on

This is another sorta' legitimate excuse, but not really. 

You'll hear a lot of the gurus say that you don't need to know squat about HTML and so on, and even brag about how they know next to nothing about that stuff.  And it's true that in the end, there's not much money in that. 

But when you're just starting out, it certainly helps if you know (or can learn) a little bit about HTML and some of the other techie things.  Not so much that you "geek out" on this stuff, but enough so that if you need to change a headline on your sales page, you can do that in the 2 minutes it takes rather than waiting 2 days for some webmaster to do it for you (for a fee).  Or if you need to install a new script, you can get that up and running in a few minutes rather than putting it off till….well…whenever.

But as someone who's fairly technical, I'd say that it's sometimes a hindrance rather than a help.  Knowing how to do something doesn't mean you should, and when you know how to mess around with this stuff, you often times end up "messing around with stuff" which takes you away from the things that really do matter.  Or maybe that's just me.

That said, I still suggest learning at least little bit of the basics.  There are a couple of resources I used to get myself up to speed that you may find useful also.

• W3 Schools (a free resource with tutorials on all sorts of web-geekery)
• How You Can Master CSS (THE COURSE I used to learn the basics of CSS…more than made up for the cost in time, aggravation and money saved)
• If you have any other recommendations, let 'er rip in the comments below

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