Showing posts with label HTML. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HTML. Show all posts
Although rich content sites using
PHP, JavaScript and other newer programming languages are very popular, (X)HTML
is still the most favourable scripting language to learn for most new web
developers.
Understanding it gives you an idea of how other web languages work,
and will stand you in good stead for learning your trade.
Note: Whenever HTML is mentioned in this article, it should be understood to
mean both HTML 4/5 and XHTML 2.0.
1. Use An Environment That Lets You See Errors
As a newer programmer, it can be frustrating to see that your website isn't
parsing correctly and having no idea of how to fix it. Sometimes it's something
as simple as a botched closing tag, or you may just not have used the correct
syntax, confusing the engine and leading to a buggy implementation. Having a
way to see exactly what you did wrong and where, is absolutely invaluable in
your formative years, and not to be sniffed at.
When you've found one, be sure to take a look at whether it automatically
corrects errors or just alerts you to their presence. It's not very useful
when, every time you make a mistake, it changes it silently without letting you
know what you did wrong.
2. Always Attempt A Project Slightly Too Hard
With the new HTML specifications just around the corner, having an
understanding of how they'll work ahead of the curve could give you a massive
edge in the marketplace. Every time you try something you can't quite complete,
you're forced to adapt and learn the skills necessary, so take advantage of
that.
3. Structure Your Code
Having a solid structure to your code work makes it so much easier as the application
grows in size. There is nothing worse than hunting for a closing tag or not
being completely sure what does what because the code is all on one line. Make
use of indentation, and always order your tags to open and close in a set
order. The use whatever methodology you please; just make sure there is some
form of similarity between all of your projects.
4. Leave Comments For Your Future Self
In a similar vein, leaving comments in your code is something that may seem
tedious at the time, but you'll hug yourself 6 months down the line when it
comes to the time to audit your code. Knowing exactly why you've done something
in the way you have is an incredible feeling, and saves more time than you'd
ever imagine. They don't all need to be of essay length, so just a few words
here and there are enough to get the job done.
5. Get Rid Of Any Internal Styling Unless You Have A Reason To keep it
CSS (cascading style sheets) are one of those simple ideas that makes a lot of
sense, and questions how we ever got by without it. For the uninitiated, a CSS
file contains all of the styling needed to make the website look pretty, and
give you a place to put it which is out of the way of the rest of the code. Not
having to write dozens of statements every time you want blue text should be
reason enough.
The full form of
HTML is Hypertext Mark-up Language and was composed (invented) by Tim Berners
Lee (born on 8 June 1955, a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the
inventor of the World Wide Web) in 1990. Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) is
commonly used to create a web-site means language for describing web-pages.
HTML is not a programming language as a simple, unique mark-up language
commonly used to develop web-pages in systematic manner. But, the question is
what mark-up language is? Mark-up language is considered as a set of mark-up
tags and HTML uses such mark-up tags to distinguish web-pages. Such mark-up
tags are commonly called HTML tags.
Now, the question is what are HTML tags? HTML tags are nothing as it
considered as keywords which are surrounded by angle brackets and normally HTML
tags comes in pairs similar like this - shown in below image. Different HTML tags are used for
different processes as for example if you want to bold a sentence or word then,
you will use bold pair and in
between you will write your sentence or word. In other words, tags comes in
pairs as first tag for start tag and second one for end tag. Start and End tags
also known as opening and closing tags.
There are number
of tags in HTML and we can combine many other languages like CSS (cascade style
sheet), Java script etc to create dynamic unique web-page.
All browsers
like Mozilla, Chrome, and Internet Explorer etc read HTML documents and display
them as web-pages or we can say that a web-site. So, what are HTML documents?
HTML documents are those documents which contain HTML tags and plain text as to
describe web-pages and those HTML documents are also called Web-pages. Browsers
does not show the HTML tags but, use HTML tags due to interpret with the
content of the page. The Following is the way to write code in HTML way-
In this way, you can write your code. Finally,
Hyper-text Markup Language (HTML) is the first step in internet means priory used
first language to create web-pages or web-site and known as common language for internet...
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