In nineteen ninety's , making a website seemed to be the simplest thing in the world. Of course, it was not — there was all sorts of HTML code involved which were difficult to implement and were confusing too, and making a professional-looking site took almost as much work then as it does now. But there were tools available to make it them easy — Tripod and Geocities which had templates and tutorials and also had web creation tool built in.
Due to fast changing tehcnology ,now in present years, creating a website seems like an endeavor best left to the professionals. But Mozilla, carriers of the old Netscape crown, wants to change that perception with Thimble, a web-creation tool that promises to make the act of creating a website easier than ever.
Apart from a basic page creation tool, Thimble has a number of interesting tutorials built in to help teach us HTML, and through extension, how to create your own page. One of the tutorials, called Hack a Map, gets you started by showing you some pretty advanced code. But the tutorial isn't about learning the advanced code, it's about learning the basic errors that are causing the page at the left to show up incorrectly. Thimble will show you exactly where the website is broken — for example, in showing you where a missing HTML tag should go. Even though you're doing light work, you're doing that work on a complicated page. The whole process feels far more enjoyable than your usual tutorial, as if you're learning by doing something important. Even if that something important is a map filled with a Minecraft pig, CatBread, and a triple rainbow.
If you're curious, you can check out Thimble over at the Mozilla website. And who knows, while playing around with pictures of cats, you might actually wind up learning something.
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