This week we focused on the basics of understanding HTML. I have previously studied HTML a few years ago but the software has completely changed since 2016. We focused on creating a website using HTML about John Baskerville. We learned how to navigate through GitHub which i personally found to be a complicated website.
https://github.com/karolinekato/baskerville
HTML in short is the foundation of a webpage also known as a hypertext markup of language. The web reads the file and loads the text into a clear interactive format. It is extremely important that HTML in a webpage is structured and easy to use for the user. It allows people to create and customise webpages. Its consists of text, images, paragraphs, tables headings, etc. A markup code is known as a element or tag for example "<" hello ">
Although we can’t seem to live without HTML in todays society it is relevantly new as the first version was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993 therefore it is constantly developing.
Here is the first complete HTML we created in class. Behind every website is a similar shell like this and I find it fascinating that every website starts off like this. I remember in the early 2000s when I was a child many websites ran in this format. If we strip back every website this is its skeleton.
Using Visual Studio Code we began creating the website. We used <em> and <strong> to add emphasis to certain words to make them pop. It was all quite straight forward to begin with using <p></p> for paragraphs and <h1></h1> <h2></h2> for headers.
CSS is the appearance of the webpage. It is common to use fonts, colours and layout changes for basic code. CSS is built in a different file from HTML but can be linked together in GitHub or other coding websites. You can just about change anything aesthetically wether you want borders, padding, block quotes and many more changes such as letter spacing.
