Monday, 15 April 2013

The standard HTML.

HTML is one of the most basic programming languages being used today. It can help you create websites with pictures, hyperlinks, lines, spacing and just about all of the basics of a website. I use it to test the look of sites and just play around with and see what I can create. I think HTML is good to start programming with, it helps you understand words and letters which commonly overlap with other programming languages.

Some examples of the code are shown on the left, but here is a starter list for you:

<html> This is the first ever thing you write in a HTML code, it tells the computer what type of code it is and adapts to it.

<head> This is the code to tell the computer how to style the head of the page. By this I mean the name of the page.

<title> The title of a page is the words at the top, the first piece of code you will actually see. After this code you should write a title for it to appear on screen.

One more thing, it helps you to customise the page and the background. To change the colour to anything you want type in this body {background: #EDF2FF}   It should appear in the colour highlighted. The code of numbers and letters tell the computer how much red, green and blue should be in the mix. Take a look at this website for all of the colour codes you could ever think of: http://html-color-codes.info/

Always, always, always make sure you end each of the sections that I mentioned above with a symbol that looks like this </ ...> i.e. the ... is whatever you are ending like the head: </head>. See?


Some people don't use HTML because of the drawbacks it has:
  • It is not viewed correctly in some browsers.
  • It is quite outdated.
  • Not very flexible
However, it is very easy to use and a perfect programming language to start you off. It was one of the first languages to make up websites and nearly all websites today have some HTML within them. It is also free! YAY! you only need a text editor document to produce it.

HTML is one of the best standard website programming languages, why not have a go!

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