Thursday 30 May 2013

HTML(Hypertext Markup Language)

HTML

 HTML is a basic language for web no website can be built without using it. Website like facebook, twitter, google, youtube and many others use HTML although these websites uses programming languages like javascript, ruby, python, perl, java, GO, c/c++, erlang but HTML is used to structure the website's content like where the heading should be where to start a new paragraph where to put images, links and so on. We are covering HTML version 4.01 its a stable version there is another version 5 is implementing but currently in draft state.


Further Information In Points

1. HTML is developed by Tim Berners-Lee.
2. Some people think that HTML is a programming language but i dont think it is because    every programming language contains loops, if/else, functions and many other things. I       think it is a markup language. 
3. Markup language is a language that contains markup tags <> we will covering that later. 
4. Web is internet and internet is web. Web is a communication between two or more computers connected through a tranmission(wire, radio waves etc).
 


Frequently Asked Questions

Q1. Why learn HTML when there are many softwares are available to develop websites? ans. You dont have the in depth knowledge to modify its code its frightening. Sometimes you need to modify it. Every web designer or developer should know this technology at least a basic.

Reference Links

If you are interested in how computers communicate or networking then this blog is for you http://learncomputernetwork.blogspot.com/

Interested in what is a markup language and what markup languages are present on earth today then this article is for you long but give you the taste of what it is  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language