Posted on : 22-09-2007 | By : Japh
What better place to start than at the beginning? Because web development involves quite a lot of jargon, I figure for the first few posts, I’ll just explain what things are. That way, once we start to get into it a bit more, you’ll know what I mean if I use any jargon (I’ll try not to use too much jargon, and just terminology where appropriate!).
So you’ve heard that there’s this stuff called HTML that you use to make web pages… but what is it, and what does HTML even stand for?
Well you’ve probably done a bit of Googling already and found that HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language… but what does that even mean?
Basically, it’s text that describes the structure of text (we use Cascading Style Sheets to describe the formatting of text, but we’ll get to that in another post).
HTML is a collection of “tags” that you put around the text you want it to describe.
Each tag generally has an opening tag which looks like:
<tagname> |
and a closing tag, which looks like:
</tagname> |
For example, if you want your text to be in a paragraph, you use the P tag, like this:
<p>This is the text that will appear on the page in a paragraph.</p> |
There are some exceptions to this, like the line-break tag and the horizontal rule tag. These are done like this:
<br /> <hr /> |
In my next post, I’ll show you the basic structure of an HTML page, and you can put some of this into action to see what I mean.
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