Mindy McAdams: What Every Journalism Student Needs To Know (now)
All students should have basic familiarity with (basic) XHTML and CSS. That’s about 10 tags in XHTML. For CSS, that’s fonts, color, and divs. They may not need this every day on the job, but these are the foundation bricks of everything they will ever do — because everything they will do is going to be online.
I am and have always been a believer that the above isn’t all that hard. HTML is not C++, it’s just a markup language, and a simple one at that. CSS has some annoying quirks, but so does MS Powerpoint, and that doesn’t stop anyone from using it all the time. Mr. Thornton recently made a great point on this topic that I’ve been emailing around to people.
McAdams goes on to talk about various media skills and such - a great read on a great blog.
