Monday, 8 October 2012

HTML, CSS and Java - Basic Research

HTML
  • HTML stand for Hyper Text Markup Language. 
  • It defines the structure and layout of a web page using a variety of tags and attributes.
  • HTML Tags describes the content of the document/webpage
  • These tags are surrounded by angled brackets - <example>
  • These tags come in pairs, one for starting the tag and the other for closing.
  • The closing one is exactly the same as the opening one, but with a forward slash - </example>
  • The current version of HTML being use at the moment is HTML5

CSS

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets .
CSS is used to style webpages that are written in HTML.
These styles include fonts, spacing and colour for example.

Advantages of CSS 
  • Easy to change styles whenever needed.
  • The HTML page is a lot smaller, meaning a smaller file size for the webpage.
  • Layout of the site will be completely consistent.

Disadvantages
  • CSS is not always compatible with all browsers. 

Java 
Java is a programming language that is used for applications on the web.
It powers games, allows you to view images and chat over the internet.
IT SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH JAVASCRIPT.



 

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