Are you fed up with the stupid WYSIWYDon’tG visual editor in WordPress and Blogger?
Trying to just line the f*cking image to the right and have text lined up with its top?
Suffering from drifting image woes?
Welcome to my world. For years, I’ve spent hours wending my way through HTML 3.0 and 4.0, and CSS 1.0 and 2.0. Now I’m paying it forward.
“HTML For Dummies” is a series about working with raw HTML, aimed at people who don’t know very much about it. In fact, this series will work best within the context of a blog, because blogs take care of many things already for you, the least of which is sidebars and basic styling.
Each week we’ll look at a couple very basic tips and a few recipes based on a theme.
This week: why visual editors suck; accessing the HTML editor in WordPress, Blogger, and LiveJournal; and three recipes for aligning simple images with text.
Spontaneous ∂erivation 