What Is HTML? Back to Basics | Design Shack - 0 views
-
Hypertext Markup Language
-
1980 b
-
fundamental building block of the web as you know it.
- ...29 more annotations...
-
HTML is all you need to create a web page
-
HTML is the pivotal piece of the puzzle.
-
the web is written in plain text.
-
writing code is more like using WriteRoom or IA Writer; all you get is plain old letters and symbols
-
“mark up” your document and insert extra indicators of how you want the text to be formatted.
-
With HTML, this markup is accomplished through tags.
-
bold tag
-
“<b>”
-
“</b>
-
<i>This is italicized.</i>
-
<b>bold</b>.
-
we have “wrapped” it in a ta
-
linking.
-
not just a tag but an attribute as well
-
<a href="http://designshack.net/">Design Shack</a>
-
tag (<a></a>)
-
attribute (href)
-
<tag attribute="VALUE">Text, images, etc.</tag>
-
anything between the “a” tags becomes a link.
-
“src” attribute
-
“alt” attribute
-
“img” info
-
it’s basically a way to give the browser plain text and have it output richly formatted and even active content that can be clicked on to some end.
-
HTML mostly relates to directly inputting content onto a page.
-
CSS is The Skin, Hair and Clothing
-
Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS.
-
The typical web developer workflow might be to insert all the various pure content first into an HTML document, then jump over to CSS and begin crafting that content to appear in a more visually pleasing and usable way
-
JavaScript jumps into this game by taking a more active role in how the page behaves.
-
HTML5 developers have some new tags to work with that make the basic structure of a web page more logical.
