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HYPER TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE
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What is Web Site:
In laymen’s language, Web-Site is a virtual shop where you can display your company products, details, profiles etc. Technically it is a collection of World Wide Web documents, usually consisting
of a home page and several related pages. It can be considered as an interactive electronic book.
What is a Web page?
A web page is a special type of file written in HTML.
This Web page needs to be transferred on a HTTP server so that people all over the world will be able to read it. We call this process as publishing of Web pages. Web pages have many advantages over traditional media. They’re easy to update and relatively inexpensive to maintain. Also Web pages provide an efficient method for distributing information, files and software.
In short, Web pages are many things to many people but the one thing all web pages have common is their underlying structure, which is written in HTML.
What is HTML :
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. Let’s understand each of these words in sequence.
Hypertext : Hypertext is the ordinary text that has been dressed up with extra features, such as
formatting images, multimedia and link to other documents. We call it Hpyer
because it can be linked up with other documents.
Markup : Markup is the process of taking ordinary text and adding extra symbols. (for example, an
editor’ proofreading symbols are a type of markup).Each of the symbols used of markup in
HTML is a command that tells a browser how to display the text. Markup can be very
simple or it can be very complicated.
Language : Language is a key point to remember about HTML. HTML is a computer language,
related to computer programming language(like BASIC, C and Pascal). HTML has its
own syntax and rule for proper communication.
An Overview of HTML
• HTML is a tool for distributing information on the web or on the internet.
• This information can be any message you wish to communicate to another individual and is not limited to text.
• It can be expressed as image and sound also.
• HTML is used to tell web browser how to display web pages.
• The pages you create with HTML are just plain text.
• When you open a web page in your browser, you don’t see the HTML code that created the page. Instead your browser interprets the HTML code and displays the page appropriately.
• HTML files are stored with either “html” or “htm” extension.
• HTML is a simply collection of codes which are called as elements.
HTML Advantages:
There are plenty of advantages to knowing HTML..
Flexibility: What you require to work with HTML is a text editor like Notepad, Editplus, Textpad. This makes HTML very flexible. As you’re not dependent on a particular piece of software that may not be available to you.
Deeper Understanding : You will have a much better concept of the structure of your page and how it works, because you built the page from scratch.
Troubleshooting : You will be able to troubleshoot HTML files efficiently and have a better idea of what techniques to try if something’s not working.
Price: Using HTML doesn’t cost you a penny. There are no expensive licenses to buy and no annoying upgrades to purchase.
Independence: You are not stuck to any one vendor or any one program or any one company.
Disadvantages of HTML
1. HTML does not have any programming capability.
2. HTML cannot provide anything more than formatted text, picture and sound.
3. HTML alone cannot validate forms.
4. For validation and other extra effects and events it demands for other programming and scripting language to be used along. Such as Perl, Java scripting & Java.