zaterdag, oktober 07, 2006
Writing web pages
Today I want to talk about creating web pages.
All web pages ultimately are written in a language that is called HTML (short for Hypertext Markup Language). It's an easily readable language that describes what's on the page. And then you have other nice acronyms like XML for structuring data (I believe it stands for eXtended Markup Language). The common look and feel for a site is done via something that is called CSS (Cascading Style Sheet). And the program logic is either at the client side where your browser is responsible for executing the code (often JavaScript), or at the server side.
Don't worry too much about all of these underlying languages and technologies, because most are handled via web site authoring tools or programming tools. But it always helps to understand the basics so you can slighlty modify whatever those tools produce.
The best place I could find to learn about HTML, XML, CSS and all the other acronyms and find a complete reference and examples is a free site called www.w3schools.com . I highly recommend it. For example, I used it to insert a tag to redirect the about2findout.com placeholder site to my existing 6C-learning site (for the example click here).
For the kind of learning2.0 something site I have in mind, I'll need a lot more than static pages. I need a web application and therefore I need to use a programming language at the web server side. I'll cover that next time.
All web pages ultimately are written in a language that is called HTML (short for Hypertext Markup Language). It's an easily readable language that describes what's on the page. And then you have other nice acronyms like XML for structuring data (I believe it stands for eXtended Markup Language). The common look and feel for a site is done via something that is called CSS (Cascading Style Sheet). And the program logic is either at the client side where your browser is responsible for executing the code (often JavaScript), or at the server side.
Don't worry too much about all of these underlying languages and technologies, because most are handled via web site authoring tools or programming tools. But it always helps to understand the basics so you can slighlty modify whatever those tools produce.
The best place I could find to learn about HTML, XML, CSS and all the other acronyms and find a complete reference and examples is a free site called www.w3schools.com . I highly recommend it. For example, I used it to insert a tag to redirect the about2findout.com placeholder site to my existing 6C-learning site (for the example click here).
For the kind of learning2.0 something site I have in mind, I'll need a lot more than static pages. I need a web application and therefore I need to use a programming language at the web server side. I'll cover that next time.
