Roland's blog

Content Management Systems, only provide you with some control over the content. You won't have the same capabilities of a trained web developer, or graphic artist, or a copywriter. You will just have enough power to do simple things.

It sounds better to pitch to a client that they will be able to modify the content in their website, and that they don't need to understand HTML or write any code whatsoever, but it is false. No CMS and no Rich Text Editor can do exactly what you want it to do. For instance, say you added an image and you want to position it to the right but say not at the border, maybe 20 pixels to the left.

Most Rich Text Editors will allow you to upload the file, insert it in the document and align right. Hmm, what about the positioning of the image? You didn't want it to be on the side. Then you move your mouse and try to move it where you'd like it. It doesn't work. So, there you are scratching your head, about how to position this right. For a second you consider contacting IT, but because it is a bunch of trouble getting to the right people, you give up and say, heck it isn't that bad.

If you knew CSS and html you could get to some properties of the image and set a style property: "margin-right: 20px", but you won't know that.

Without education, you cannot be capable of doing all the things you want to do. So, learn HTML and CSS, not everything, just the basics. Look up tutorials or ask questions in discussion forums, and learn. It will make your life much easier in the long run.