Publishing HTML codes anywhere - HTML converter

So I always try and put the html code as examples in the blog and other places but it never converts it for me. I've even found html code which should show html code:

<pre>code</pre>

<code>code</code>

and there was another with x in it but I've forgotten. Needless to say it didn't work with a bit of php code I had. In the end I had to find a converter. I found this one which is good

Joomla and emails

Using emails in Joomla has been a slight learning curve. It seems it wants to hide this as much as possible from bots which is nice. So I found this article explaining ways to use emails in joomla