This is most likely going to be the shortest of all of the tutorials but knowing how to make characters that are not directly on your keyboard can come in handy. They may not be the used the most often but at least knowing how to make the characters is important (at least in my opinion).

Basically there is a certain way you begin and end a symbol. When entering a symbol in HTML format they will begin with an '&' and end with ";". An example is the copyright symbol. Since we cannot type it out with our keyboard we must do this:

This is essentially how all symbols and characters are created. The only thing that differs in all of them is the text in between the ‘&’ and the ‘;’. This is not the only way to make a symbol either. There is a text version for most of the symbols but all of them have a number. These will have the # sign followed by the symbols designated number. You can also make the copyright symbol with this:

While I think it is important to know how to do these I do not suggest trying to memorize every single on of the symbols. There are about 250 of them and there are reference sheets for that. Why memorize if you know you will always have a guide?