I’ve had years of practice with HTML and sure, I don’t use it everyday like I used to since I’ve returned to my studies, but regardless, it’s very much as if I’m getting back on a bicycle after a 23 year hiatus.
WordPress has sure changed quite a bit. It’s still a rather user friendly content management system. When I was doing web site stuff (writing content, reporting news, etc), WordPress used to be so unreliable that I would click onto the HTML tab (where there used to be one) above the text box and manually type the layout of the article. It was fool proof. Hopefully its changed by now because commonly, we’d have to use <center> for all of our photos and “Source” links.
This first week awoke a lot of common sense mistakes that I should have known had I probably been more attentive. I take that as part of the continuous learning system I have. I like mistakes. I learn the best by messing up, as annoying as I find it thanks to being a perfectionist. Damn this Type A personality!
So, yeah, HTML is like riding a bike, you never fully forget how to do it if you had the experience with it, but you’re going to make a few mistakes along the way. As for CSS, I used to only be able to read it. Writing it is a different kind of creature. I feel though that it’s one of those things where if you practice enough with it – less so than Javascript! – you’ll get the hang of it and it will get easier.