What Is HTML

    Just like many other things, HTML has a history. The first version of HTML released to the world was version 1.0 and it comprised of putting some simple text into a website. When it was also released a lot of people weren’t into website creation. Not too long after, the HTML 2.0 was released a few new features were added to the first version. At this point the features were the standard for website design until January 1997 and defined many core HTML features for the first time. At this point a lot of people began to join website creation. Soon after, a man named Dave Raggett and his group introduced a HTML draft of version 3.0 promising other webmasters. They promised to introduce improvements more power tools for web design however, their promises weren’t conveyed. This led to an agreement that improvements would be modular meaning that they could be added in stages and this way it would be easier for browser companies. Version 3.0 was abandoned and other versions continued to be added and up till date improvements are still being made.

HTML is an abbreviation for Hyper Text Markup Language. Hyper Text is the method that would allow you move around on the web by clicking on special text called hyperlinks which bring you to the next page. Markup is what the HTML tags do to the text inside them to identify it as a certain type of text. HTML is also a language as it has its own codes and syntax like other languages. This language is used for describing website creation. This is to say that every web page is a HTML file.

    One can create a HTML as long as they use thee correct tags. The tags are what separate normal text from HTML code. These tags are commonly known as the words between the <angle-brackets>.  In addition most tags must have an opening and closing part. They allow all the cool stuff like images and tables and stuff, just by telling your browser what to render on the page. Different tags will perform different functions. The tags themselves don’t appear when you view your page through a browser, but their effects do.  Most importantly a HTML file must consists of essential tags in order for the browser to understand and display them correctly. One might feel creating a HTML is extremely time consuming. However, it depends on the skills and knowledge one has prior to creating a HTML. Studying and understanding HTML would take only a few days. Once one can put down tags, they can easily create a HTML. Learning how to create a HTML would not only teach one how to create their own website but also expose one to other things like graphic design, typography and computer programming. As mentioned earlier, creating a HTML could be done completely offline and one can also add more to the file and then update it on the already created online website.

       

WORK CITED PAGE

Shannon Ross. Web Designer. PhD in computer science. http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/historyofhtml.html. September 13th 2015.