Thursday, March 11, 2010

HTML and CSS

Well, here we are again. Ready to get to know more about the uniqueness of NMP.
Well, this time, we are looking at HTML, XML and CSS.

HTML is the Hyper Text Markup Language. Mark up language is a way of getting hyper text in a way that people can understand. It is the pre-dominant language for World Wide Web (www). In order for it to work, the text is put in between the tags. ie;content.

XML is the Extensible Markup Language. The main purpose of this is it can be used to scribe anything. It is built to be human and machine readable thus if you forget a small close, I breaks, and it does not make up for it like HTML does.

HTML is more or less a limited subset of XML. It can be used on every computer there is; unlike Flash- it is more intensive. The other reason as to why it is easy to use is because there was limited technological development, and this has thus made it easier for it to be used in the present day.

There are a variety of tags like the body tag-emphasizes what exactly is going to be shown on the web page, head tag-is for the heading, title tag, etc.

CSS allows one to separate the presentation from the HTML. This is also known as the style sheet. This is what everyone sees when they look at a website or a web page and they think it to have an impressive outlook, aka pretty. This work is all done in the style sheet, and a link an be done in the HTML so that the final web page has all the information that is required.
One style sheet aka CSS can ‘talk’ to a number of HTML pages.

Conclusion

This is just an outlook on what HTML, CSS and XML are and what they do. But for more information on how to make a web page of your own, have a look at www.3schools.com as it gives a more or less one to one tutorial on what to do with HTML and CSS and also XML.
*over and out*

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