Is it worth the time and effort to learn HTML Coding?

HTML is mainly used to embed images, links, color text, align, make bullets, etc: etc: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is mainly used for positioning, and sometimes effects or rollovers, depending on what you're using it on. I'm not gonna get into a discussion on JQuery, Ajax, PHP, or even JavaScript.

However regarding HTML if you're gonna get into making a website or embedding certain things like images or links for example, it's no doubt the first one you should startout with as it's really basic, and with the new HTML5 you have a lot more to do.

First learn HTML, and then CSS, after that you can get into PHP, Jquery, Ajax, or JavaScript (You can do everything in JQuery than you can in JavaScript, plus you can do more, and write less code, as a matter of fact their motto is "Do More, Less Code)

It really depends on what you want to do with it. If you are just building a simple website for personal usage, then I would say no, you do not need to put in the time and effort to learn HTML. For building simple webpages and websites, there are a lot of very good website builders all over the web (one example that I can think of off the top of my head is webs.com).

On the other hand, if you want to persue a career in web design, or you want to go more in-depth with these webpages, learning HTML is an absolute necessity. HTML is the most basic type of web-based coding you can learn. If you don't take the time to learn HTML properly, then you will not be able to take on the other types of coding as easily as you would if you learned HTML exeptionally well. It's like trying to build a house without laying a proper foundation. What's the house going to do? It will topple.

So is it worth the time and effort it takes to learn HTML? It honestly just boils down to what you want to do with it. Simple webpages would probably just be better off with a web designing program, whereas a career in web design or very complex webpages would need a solid HTML foundation.

Yes... if you want to learn how to easily make websites then you should learn HTML(Hyper Text Markup-Language) and CSS(Cascade Style Sheets)!
As for the time and effort... only you can decide if you need to have this knowledge!

HTML is definitely worth learning because it makes the basis of a website and the tags are all very straight forward and make sense, for instance