I found Joe Barta's So you Want to make a web page site fairly simple to follow. I downloaded the Note Tab Lite Program he recommended and got underway.
HTML - The advantages of html editing is the vast range of stuff you can manage to do. It gives a lot more freedom and understanding of how things work and lets you be more creative. You control the site from your computer and only upload and download as you need. To get a true understanding of web pages and how they run it is probably essential to have some knowledge of how html works and how to use it. For the inexperienced however it is time consuming and fiddly.
Blogging - Blogging is done on-line. It is great for straight forward and quick work which you want displayed and seen. You don't need ftp's or need to have any knowledge of html. You basically just have to know the basics of being able to use a browser and follow links, sign up, start typing and off you go.
However as everything is on-line you need to be reliant on the blogging site you use. It also limits variation and creativity.
My view at the moment is that html is going to be very useful to understand, however when editing my web page i will stick with an editor. Reason - I am going to end up wasting far to much time playing around with code
One sticking point I have had on this is the html validation. When checking the main page of the web site I run it had 9 errors and was not HTML 4.01 transitional. It does however function as a web page that is used by hundreds of people. For the purpose of this task I felt and learning basic html my page should be Validated correctly. First attempts had LOTS of errors.
I finally got it down under the 10 mark and slowly worked through these. It took more time than I thought but for my own satisfaction it was rewarding to get the following message:
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