Ever hear of a language called HTML? Well you should learn what it is and how to use it because it is important if you want to make a website, for example. “HTML is the predominant language for construction of web pages. It is used to describe structure and content in text form as well as to compliment text with objects such as images.” (1) There are millions of ways to change your HTML language to make it overall look different.
Next question you ask would be how to use it right? Well to start out, you can make a heading. By adding <HTML> <body> <h1> your heading here </h1> you create your heading. Its as easy as 1 2 3! HTML take a lot of patience because there are so many ways to change it. You can make it bold or colorful, basically whatever way you want there is a way to change it to make it like how you want it!
There is so many different places that has how to learn HTML. Or in other words how to ‘speak’ HTML. You can learn it from magazines, or articles, or websites or even real books! If you learn about something new, usually you want to know where it came from right? Well, in October 1991, a list of 12 HTML tags were said in public. This is when the phenomenon of HTML began. After, this, many revisions of HTML occurred. You can never have something perfect when it comes to computer language.
Within HTML the < > are called starting tags and ending tags. They are really important because without them the HTML will not look correct. In the ending tag you must have / then > because without the slash mark then the whole document will be for example bold if you made the text bold. Originally, HTML was used to fix research documents online because no one realized it would be used in the future as the codes to design websites.
Something that is cool about HTML is that you can use it to put a picture on a site. If you ever want to make a list or bulleted list all you have to do is add <ol> before then you can put <li> for the individual item on your list. But don’t forget to add the closing tag so it does not keep the next item on the same line. It would look like this: <ol> next line, <li>First item, next line, <li>Second item, next line, <li>Third item, and then to close it, </ol>.
What if you wanted to add a table to whatever creation you are creating? Well you can do that too! HTML has a way to add cells and that is a table! All you do is you have to add <table> as the basic outline. Then for each line you put <tr> and for each cell you have to put <td> the information in the cell </td> again. See look how easy it is!
As you can see so far, HTML is very helpful. You can create your site anyway you want. From background color, table color, border size, text color, text size, font color, and table size, you can do just about anything!
If you ever came across a website for example facebook, they have gone through so many makeovers in the years that they have been around. Did you wonder what was going on? Well I can tell you. They were updating the HTML on the page. The more complex the website is the more complex the HTML is ‘behind the scenes’.
Another thing that you might have not noticed when you go to websites would be how there are separate columns on the side to maybe advertise for different companies or consumer products. That is also involved with the HTML of the page.
So in conclusion, one could tell how much HTML is needed in our society today. It is used in so many applications but we just don’t notice cause it is in the ‘behind the scenes’ not like in front of our eyes. We need it to make all different websites formal or informal whichever way you feel needed. Without HTML life would be so very different. Our society today might not be able to function without Internet and the websites we use daily.
