HTML. The acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. This language is easy to understand when someone enters the information manually. Ivan showed us a few examples of software that assist with entering the data. The software enters information, or code, that is unnecessary. Jack Fisher was my previous HTML professor. Jack also pointed out the extra code that HTML software produces. In Jack’s class I learned typing HTML code in WordPad! Knowing basics does help out. This is what I have learned about HTML.
HTML is much like BIOS. They both work by reading characters. I no proper code is entered, there will be no page to view. Certain characters represent commands that a computer follows. With HTML the commands are enclosed with < > on each side. Within these characters there is information that the computers read and project. The basic code that will give us a web page would be: <html>, <body>, <font>, <h1>. This can give us the most basic page. We can start getting fancy by adding <div> (divides information for different format), <a name> (anchors that navigate web pages with a click on a link), <img src> (adds pictures to web page), and the list can go on. Basic understanding is needed to modify changes to code when the software that is producing unwanted results. After using Dreamweaver I realized that modifications do have to be made manually to get sought out results.
CSS. The acronym for Cascading Style Sheets. This method runs parallel with HTML coding. With CSS further design detail can be applied to the existing code. If for every paragraph the code <p> was used then in CSS p {background-color: #FFFFFF; another code;}. CSS can help separate the data that will be displayed from the data that will design and layout the web page. CSS coding can also do exactly what it stated in its name “Cascading Style Sheets.” There can be menus that will show additional information when the mouse hovers around the menu groups. There are many benefits that CSS can provide, too many to list and I’m not knowledgeable with the majority of them.
The information presented in class helped enforce methods that I previously learned. Since I am not producing web pages directly from typing HTML from the beginning, I need refresher here and there.
