HTML which is also known as ‘Hypertext Markup Language’ is a programming language used to describe information you may find on a web page. When used with CSS and JavaScript, these three makes up the essential foundation of any website found worldwide. A website may be broken down into three components. First, we have the page’s appearance which is made with CSS. CSS is also known as ‘Cascading Style Sheets’ is used to design the appearance of a webpage. This allows you to set things from the size and font of texts shown, to the color of the page, and so on. Then we have the functionality of the page using JavaScript. JavaScript is a language used to program the page. For example, if you were to click on “shopping cart” on amazon, this would navigate you to a page that were to show you what’s in your cart that you want to buy. Lastly, we have what some call the ‘bones’ of the webpage. This is where HTML is used.
CSS is known as ‘Cascading Style Sheets’ is used to design the appearance of a webpage.
When designing a webpage, many contains important information that may recede in headings, paragraphs, or many other types of data. HTML is used to specify what kind of information goes into these types of things on a webpage. This type of work is mainly used by Front-end developers. These developers use HTML language to code different things that relates to the overall structure of the page.
HTML is something every website uses no matter what browser you use. From social media web pages like Facebook and Google, to web players like YouTube or Spotify. If you were to look at the coding behind done for these pages, you would see that they all use HTML. That’s why HTML is important.
To become a front-end or full-stack web developer, HTML is a good place to start off with. Combine HTML with CSS and JavaScript will provide you all the necessary to create an interactive webpage.
A blog I would like to share is https://www.theblogstarter.com/html-for-beginners/. This blog has a lot of useful information about HTML and if you’re looking into become a front-end developer or a full-stacked developer I highly encourage it!
I chose to write about HTML because I am highly interested in learning full-stacked development. I think it will be very useful in the type of career I will choose once I graduate from Worcester State University. Another reason why I chose to research and write about it, is because it is on our syllabus, we will be learning about front-end development, so I thought it was appropriate to talk about HTML.
From the blog CS@Worcester – Michael's Developer Blog by michaelchaau and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.