I found a series of interesting articles that talk about the same subject, which is the most important markup language there is: HTML. And I wanted to share with you these: why do we have to use this language in order to create Web pages and how can we do this, without having to attend IT lessons and stressing our brain too much. Let’s see how this works.
I will present a series of articles about the most important aspects of HTML: the editors also use HTML and CSS. I may suggest, if you’re going to learn HTML from this site, to make a bookmark to this page for easier access to the following pages or articles that I am going to write.
The course is divided into four chapters. We cannot develop very much here because of space. Chapter 1 is called: What do I need to write HTML codes? You can read the article about useful programs for creating a site, but in this chapter, I will present more details about how to write codes than things about the recommended programs. It’s about of course of the incredible Notepad + + , which everyone praise and about Kompozer and SeaMonkey. In addition, we will present some very useful links and materials from where you can get more information. HTML cannot be taught exclusively to what we present here. “We just show you the way, the steps are up to you”, like I read on an e-learning Website.
Chapter 2 is called: The most important HTML elements. Images, Links, Lists. These are the most important elements of a site. I want to assure you that at the end of this chapter, you will know enough to create a blog on WordPress, Blogger or another blogging service, without using a visual editor. Of course, this is up to you and your learning skills. Don’t worry. No man was born taught. If you need more, you can stop and read some books about HTML.
Chapter 3: The structure of an HTML document. There are some practices that are essential for writing a page in HTML. If you consider yourself as a rebel and do not comply with these agreements, you will surely be convinced that you cannot do the way you want it, but the way most people do it, which is by obbeying the regulations. Chapter 4: CSS Styles. CSS is an easy language to learn if you have a little imagination. Let’s start with the beginning.
Why should you learn HTML?
The simple answer is that all Web pages are written in HTML. You might have heard of sites in Flash, Java, PHP or anything, but eventually it all comes down to HTML. An application in Flash or Java, even if it stretches over the entire length and width of a browser, it must be placed on the page using the HTML code. The PHP scripts only generate the HTML codes. So if you want to create Websites, you must have some minimal knowledge of HTML.
What is HTML? How does it work? Why HTML and not other language? Any course needs a brief history to understand how it came to a situation. HTML history is closely linked to the history of the World-Wide-Web (WWW). Internet and its prototypes have been developed even after the Second World War. The Internet is actually a global network which can transfer data (files). A simple text file is not very interesting, so appeared the need for text formatting (to control the size, color, shape, font, etc..). So it came to the World-Wide-Web using HTML.
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. HyperText means it’s text with steroids (Rich). Markup reffers to the marked portions, ie the HTML saying: “Look, this is it.” About tags and markers I will discuss in the first chapter. Language is what a language means. Like any language, it has some rules.
Unlike the French, for example, the HTML language is easier to learn. The hard part is that this is a computer language and you cannot actually make mistakes. If you say in English: “London is the capital of the UK” or “UK has the capital in London”, you say the same thing, even if the word order is changed; in HTML is more difficult to change the order of words and understand exactly the same thing (although, unlike C or Pascal programming language, HTML is much more lenient). The transformation of the text dealing with bookmarks (HTML) in steroid text (formatted text) is in the browser. It takes the bookmarks from the server and embellishes the words and the images as it knows best.11