Why Should I Learn HTML?
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People tend to be confused and hopeless when they swim in a sea of uncertainty. If you are reading these lines then you probably know thing or two about the web right? Yet, when things get to words like HTML, XML, JavaScript or Browser your ears immediately plugged, your mind switch to autopilot and your thought start floating with a huge hope to pass fast this cloud of awful terms.
Here is a short article that explain what HTML is all about. This article is one of a series of articles in which I explain to non professionals some of the basic facts and secrets of the Web and show them that they can too interpret the underneath of this Matrix and use it productively...
Here is a short article that explain what HTML is all about. This article is one of a series of articles in which I explain to non professionals some of the basic facts and secrets of the Web and show them that they can too interpret the underneath of this Matrix and use it productively...
People tend to be confused and hopeless when they swim in a sea of uncertainty. If you are reading these lines then you probably know thing or two about the web right? Yet, when things get to words like HTML, XML, Java Script or Browser your ears immediately plugged, your mind switch to autopilot and your thought start floating with a huge hope to pass fast this cloud of awful terms. This is where you start being confused and fill like victim of technocrats.
While we can not cover all of those issues here, Let me uncover for you in few simple sentences and some very basic example, a great part of the mystery behind Web.
First: the tool you are now using to to read this article and view other pages on the Web is call "Web Browser". Browser is neither Google nor Yahoo. These are search engines. Browser is a software.
Second: Think of Web Browser as a drawing machine. It get set of commands and draw text.The text can be presented with different styles, colors and sizes.
Third: The text can be combined with images, form fields for submitting data, video player and other embedded programs, running within the browser.
Fourth: The information to be presented by browser is arranged in pages. Website is a collection of such pages with an address that can be located by Web Browser. While located, pages of website can be presented.
When you understand these 4 basic concepts you principally understand what is a Web page - A web page is a drawing, an image, that includes styled text, images, form fields and program object. Web browser is the tool that do the rendering work and HTML is the major language these days, to define the browser what should be drawn on screen. Here it is again in other words: HTML is set of instructions for drawing text images and form fields on the screen by Web browser. This is all the secret!
What you should to do now is some very basic practicing. After all the best way to learn is by trying it yourself. Here is a very simple exercise anyone can do:
What you just did is to create HTML page that gives the Web browser the instruction to draw the text "My First Web Page". In more technical terms, you created a script that uses HTML format and standard to present text on web browser. HTML is not the only format to describe web content. There are other formats too. HTML is however the most common and basic format in which other formats are usually embedded with.
Now lets do one small change and see the result. Change the text in your first HTML page as presented below:
<html><body><b>My First Web Page</b></body></html>
As you can see we added <b> and </b> tags before and after the text. Remember, anything in HTML is about giving the browser instruction to draw something, somehow... This time we changed our script to instruct the browser to present our text in bold. save the file and check the result by reloading it to your browser.
Lets go back to the beginning. People tend to be confused when they flowed by uncertainty. Have you seen the movie Matrix where they used to watch the green screen of numbers and recognize meaningful patterns there? The same is about the Web, you can live full life in the web-matrix without being aware of its other existence, but you can also make the change and start learn to read its underneath patterns.
We work hard to grant our children the sense of self confidence, so they can manage in life. But what about us? Should we stay in the dark or should we move forward and learn to understand the reality of virtual worlds to come?
There are great tools to learn the web these days. Tools that we could only dream about many years ago when I first made my first steps in this huge world of bits, by reading heavy textbooks and copying text to my PC. Write an article yourself now, on this website, and see how can you add some HTML tags to shape the result. As you can see, you can immediately use what you just learned few seconds ago.
I hope you realized that when understanding the very basic facts, all the rest is about acquiring a technique that can be learned, and yes hard work too. Don't expect all to come easy but when you do it do it with love. Finally, don't forget - web is all about experimenting.
Gilad Tiram is an expert with over 13 years of experience in software design and development. Gilad is also the CEO and CTO of Rhizome Networks A company that put in its vision to build Virtual Workplace that join together experts and non experts individuals from all over the world where they can work together for developing Internet services and dedicated virtual-workplaces. To know more about HTML I recommend you this course.
Thank you for your time...
While we can not cover all of those issues here, Let me uncover for you in few simple sentences and some very basic example, a great part of the mystery behind Web.
First: the tool you are now using to to read this article and view other pages on the Web is call "Web Browser". Browser is neither Google nor Yahoo. These are search engines. Browser is a software.
Second: Think of Web Browser as a drawing machine. It get set of commands and draw text.The text can be presented with different styles, colors and sizes.
Third: The text can be combined with images, form fields for submitting data, video player and other embedded programs, running within the browser.
Fourth: The information to be presented by browser is arranged in pages. Website is a collection of such pages with an address that can be located by Web Browser. While located, pages of website can be presented.
When you understand these 4 basic concepts you principally understand what is a Web page - A web page is a drawing, an image, that includes styled text, images, form fields and program object. Web browser is the tool that do the rendering work and HTML is the major language these days, to define the browser what should be drawn on screen. Here it is again in other words: HTML is set of instructions for drawing text images and form fields on the screen by Web browser. This is all the secret!
What you should to do now is some very basic practicing. After all the best way to learn is by trying it yourself. Here is a very simple exercise anyone can do:
Open text editor such as Notepad or Word-pad (Not Word which is a word processor, which is something else)
- Write the following text:
<html><body>My First Web Page</body></html>
Save the file in this name: "myfirst.html" note the "html" extension of this file. This will tell your operating system to open a Web browser. Indeed, file extension is a command for OS to open some program in order to use or show some type of content.
Now Open the file with your Web Browser, using the "File > Open File" option from the main menu of your browser.
Check the result.
What you just did is to create HTML page that gives the Web browser the instruction to draw the text "My First Web Page". In more technical terms, you created a script that uses HTML format and standard to present text on web browser. HTML is not the only format to describe web content. There are other formats too. HTML is however the most common and basic format in which other formats are usually embedded with.
Now lets do one small change and see the result. Change the text in your first HTML page as presented below:
<html><body><b>My First Web Page</b></body></html>
As you can see we added <b> and </b> tags before and after the text. Remember, anything in HTML is about giving the browser instruction to draw something, somehow... This time we changed our script to instruct the browser to present our text in bold. save the file and check the result by reloading it to your browser.
Lets go back to the beginning. People tend to be confused when they flowed by uncertainty. Have you seen the movie Matrix where they used to watch the green screen of numbers and recognize meaningful patterns there? The same is about the Web, you can live full life in the web-matrix without being aware of its other existence, but you can also make the change and start learn to read its underneath patterns.
We work hard to grant our children the sense of self confidence, so they can manage in life. But what about us? Should we stay in the dark or should we move forward and learn to understand the reality of virtual worlds to come?
There are great tools to learn the web these days. Tools that we could only dream about many years ago when I first made my first steps in this huge world of bits, by reading heavy textbooks and copying text to my PC. Write an article yourself now, on this website, and see how can you add some HTML tags to shape the result. As you can see, you can immediately use what you just learned few seconds ago.
I hope you realized that when understanding the very basic facts, all the rest is about acquiring a technique that can be learned, and yes hard work too. Don't expect all to come easy but when you do it do it with love. Finally, don't forget - web is all about experimenting.
Gilad Tiram is an expert with over 13 years of experience in software design and development. Gilad is also the CEO and CTO of Rhizome Networks A company that put in its vision to build Virtual Workplace that join together experts and non experts individuals from all over the world where they can work together for developing Internet services and dedicated virtual-workplaces. To know more about HTML I recommend you this course.
Thank you for your time...
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