A Very Basic Monster Introduction: HTML
HTML is an acronym for HyperText Markup Language. It’s basically a computer language devised to create web page of a web site, so that any one can connect to the internet and view such HTML-based web site.
- HyperText is basically special text that web users can use to navigate around the web page, web site and the web. The basic mode of navigation is by clicking on hyper-links, which can either bring you up to the top of the web page, to the next web page, or other web site on the web. Based on the definition of the word hyper, the mode of navigation by HyperText is not linear (e.g. in straight line), and that means web users can go to any where on the Internet by clicking on the hyper-linked texts — there is no straight line or set order for web page/web site navigation.
- Markup is what HTML tags (e.g. <center>Centered Text</center>) do to the text inside them. Based on its specially standardized definition, HTML tags can assign certain characteristic to the text enclosed inside its opening (<>) and closing </> tags. (e.g. <i>italicized text</i>).
- HTML as a whole is a Language. Just like any other language, it has its own coded letters, symbols and syntax with their associated meanings (mainly for visual display of the text).
HTML History & Background
Code-named “Cougar”, the current version of HTML is 4.01. Yes, there were other 3 versions of HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
Back in the day, when different browsers kept popping up with their own browser-specific tags, the world wide web design of a webmaster became a nightmarish war front for the browser compatibility battles.
Fortunately, a group of smart, peace-loving people came together and formed what is now known as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C for short =) . This was around 1994, when WILBUR (now know as HTML 3.2) was forged to became the standardized language for web creation.
Taming the HTML Monster
Since this monster is a little easier to handle. We’ll start taming this monster first rather than venturing on to the others. I promise you’ll at least learn how to build basic HTML web pages, which you can inter-link them in hyper-links to make it a navigable web site ;).
To be continued…
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