What is HTML and how is it used. Please also tell me about some others like CSS, DHTML and so on Thank you
HTML or hypertext markup language is being used on web. It has different tags which you can use to layout a website. CSS or Cascading Style Sheet these are more enhanced usage on the web which could make a website look professional and look something presentable.
Well said Red! HTML is pretty straight forward... and that is why you find a ton of tutorials for free on google!
HTML is the code behind your webpage and is what your browser looks for to display a webpage, the way the webdesigner intended it to look, and is a series of tags <tags> that tells the browser where to display what.
Putting it in a simple format: HTML = Putting the visual together on a site CSS = Styling the visual on a site DHTML = Making dynamic things, like animations think of it as using both of the above AND javascript. more... PHP = The code which does stuff. It's able to interact with databases etc. Can't be turned off by the user. JAVASCRIPT = The code which runs on the viewers PC, and can be turned off. I tried to make this as simple as possible. Probabally missing a lot. But yeah.
HTML: Used to display the content on the website. I.e. the code behind each and every website on the net. CSS: Used to style that very content. I.e. change the colour of text etc. Also now used to control the layout of a site. Javascript: A scripting language that is client side. This means that it is run by the computer of the person viewing the website. Javascript can be used to add more "interactivity" , e.g validating forms. PHP: A server side scripting language. This means that the code is run on the server (where the files are stored) and it can be used to generate HTML. It is used for dynamic things such as loging into a site. Nick
HTML is the content however it can also contain the layout and design though these days it is considered best to split these out into CSS rather than pure HTML dHTML is a combination of javascript and HTML but is a fairly outdated term PHP does generate HTML but can also generate javascript, XML, Images etc ASP - Active Server Pages - equiv to PHP but another language .Net - the next generation of ASP (basically) but much closer to a programming language rather than a "scripting" language CFM/ JSP/ CGI etc - all scripting languages equiv to PHP & ASP XML - eXtendable Markup Language - similar to HTML in that it is a markup language (ie uses tags) but unlike HMTL as a language itself all tags other than the opening one are user defined rather than predefined... there are some standard applications of XML such as RSS and sitemaps where a standardised system has been introduced to allow cross site usages xHTML - a modification on the syntax of HTML to include some of the rules of XML - eg all tags must be closed so in HTML a line break would be <br> where as in xHTML it is <br /> Ajax - a system of using javascript and XML to update part of a page rather than reloading the complete page sHTML - HTML which enables serverside includes - ie it conjoins a number of separate files (HTML/ Text/ XML etc) into a single page... again fairly outdated with the proliferation of ASP/ PHP/ .Net etc that all give better ways of achieving this.
You should also have a look at w3schools if you're interested in learning web design/coding. HTML Tutorials CSS Tutorials Javascript Tutorials Also download a few free templates from sites like oswd.org...they'll help you better understand how it all pulls together Hope that helps!
Here is a compilation of some of the most frequently asked questions by beginning Web authors, including numerous definitions: Web Page Authoring FAQ James
DHTML is like a swear word! It is the mixture of html, css and ECMAscript a.k.a Javascript. DHTML was considered more hassle than what ir was worth, every browser used the code differently and also there wasn't just one standard code, you had VBscript and JScript which were microsofts answerers to the competition (look for the browser wars). So anyway DHTML is considered a swear word amongst web developers, It is now called DOM (document object model) Scripting or JavaScripting. There are tutorials at http://www.w3schools.com on all languages. Any problems or help needed just give me an email or pm
To be precise, HTML=Hyper Text Markup Language that utilizes an array of pre-defined elements & attributes (tags) to facilitate interchange of text between documents residing on computers linked together on the Web via Hyperlinks. The latest iteration of W3C HTML is the HTML 4.01 Specification - the core HTML standard is ISO-HTML James
What is an HTML File? * HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language * An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags * The markup tags tell the Web browser how to display the page * An HTML file must have an htm or html file extension * An HTML file can be created using a simple text editor What is CSS? * CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets * Styles define how to display HTML elements * Styles are normally stored in Style Sheets * Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem * External Style Sheets can save you a lot of work * External Style Sheets are stored in CSS files * Multiple style definitions will cascade into one
What he said If your interested in learning about there are plenty of free resources and tutorials on the web to help you out! Try searching for HTML tutorial
Look at it this way: have you ever read or written a report (on paper)? Read a book? A newspaper? They are merely printed on the paper, easy. If you look at a newspaper in a language you cannot read, I can ask you questions like "Where is the name of this newspaper?" and "Where is the caption text which describes this photo on the left?" and "Where are the advertisements?" I don't read Chinese, but I can tell you where most of these things are on a Chinese-language newspaper. Why? Because most newspapers follow a loose "standard". The name of most newspapers is at the top or left side in big letter. Photo captions are usually small text under the photo, though sometimes alongsie or on top -- I still know it's the photo caption because it's usually a different size text or seperated from other content with a line (border). I can probably pick out the advertisements too : ) HTML takes these paper documents and tells web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox what part of the page is the title, the photo caption, the advertisement, etc. A bunch of dudes got together and decided (slowly over time) which TAGS would represent these different types of text. The text (and sometimes the images such as a photo) are surrounded on each side with a <tag> which says what it is. To learn HTML is to learn the names and functions of these tags. HTML is not a programming language. It only puts tags (words) around the content of a page to say what it is. <h1>This is the header text of my newspaper</h1> Hope this gives another idea.
Sample HTML Code: <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Hello <b>World</b> </body> </html> Code (markup): if you save this code to a file named whatever.htm and open it in a browser, youll get the result of the code, which should be : Hello World