Sunday, 3 April 2016

The Protocols of Web Coding


HTML:
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and these all come together to create and allow the website to work. To start off, the Hypertext is the way you are able to move around the website, and by clicking on the hyperlink, specific to that certain page, it will take you to where you want to go as there is no order, allowing the viewer to be in control. The HTML tags are what determine normal text to HTML code, and markup helps the HTML tags to mark the text as a certain type of text. The markup tags define how the text on a website should be presented, and are encased within angle brackets, for example, <html> and normally are used in pairs with an opening tag and a closing tag as the end, <b> and </b>. The text between the markup tags are not case sensitive which allows the designer to use uppercase to make the tags stand out from the rest of the text. An example of html is when the information displayed in between the <html and </html> tags describes the website, helping you build the website whereas cascading style sheet determines the aesthetics of the website, so the colours, font type as well as size and the mouse over effects included on the website.

 XHTML:
XHTML means Extensible Hypertext Markup Language and even though it is similar to HTML it is stricter than HTML as well as cleaner and is supported by all new main browsers. It is made up of HTML and XML, and with the XML being designed to describe data and HTML used to display data, they work together to produce more dynamic websites as the designers of the site can customize and make their own tags. Another advantage to combining HTML and XML is it allows websites to be viewed on other platforms, such as mobile phones, tablets and consoles as these can sometimes find it difficult to understand the certain language. Unlike the HTML tags, all the information within the tags must all be lowercase. They must always be closed at the end and once completed the website will be checked in order to see if it works in any browser and will then go on to be published for people to view it.

CSS:
Cascading Style Sheet is a new feature to HTML that allows developers as well as users to have more control over the display of the webpages and is the aesthetics of the website, such as the typefaces, colours, background and page layout. Unlike the HTML and XHTML is isn’t a Markup language but a style sheet language and describes the appearance and arrangements of the document, which are written within the markup language. The <div> tags, which means divider and this is where all the instructions and the content are inputted into a box. The style, shape and size of these boxes are then controlled and determined through the use of style sheets.

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