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Originally Posted by TheEdlets
Thanks for the replies! All very helpful
@tex2002ans I applied as a ghost writer, wasn't a match but he liked my enthusiasm and needed someone to do this.
The big question lads
How long would it take to learn HTML and how would you go about this?
I've told him I've taken Scriv as far as it can go and I'm willing to learn HTML if he wants me to, just need some assistance with how to go about it!
Cheers
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Not to sound overly arch, but perhaps you should tell him that despite the public perception that any moron can make an ebook, without knowing anything whatsoever about HTML, XHTML,and CSS--it's actually NOT true. Moreover, (having had an approach about this very type of work more than once), cleaning up blog posts is usually harder than is making a book from Word, because the blogging platform(s) out there make liberal use of cruft coding and tags.
If you are a quick study, you can probably get through the w3schools HTML course in a day or less. Ditto the CSS course. Learning, however, to actually deploy both, and--bigger issue--learning what does, and does not, work in eBooks will take quite a while longer. Learning the peculiarities of what works in, for example, Kindle, but doesn't work somewhere else, and vice-versa--that will take some time.
Offered FWIW.
Hitch