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Liam Brazier

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Recently, a friend of mine asked about how to get into HTML and CSS. It’s her resolution. Codeacademy’s many have ALSO asked the very same question as they created a resolution behind the idea.  Hopefully, there is a purpose towards learning HOW to HTML and it doesn’t start with “everybody’s doing it”. To generate content by oneself - makes sense. To keep it in reserves for when one needs to whip it out on a CMS that gives one the right to HTML in blog posts - cool. But to just have around because a certain mayor is doing it - doesn’t reaaaaaaally cut it. Coding usually solves problems with syntax and is a very useful skill. Just saying.

The way I started didn’t rely on websites, but a big book on HTML in ‘99. Then, I started exploring tags, methods, structures, and the like. Mostly through geocities, homestead, and a slew weird video game website ideas. Actually taking courses was another good step which ultimately made me more aware of the skill that I needed. These days, it’s more expanded.

Hopefully, they’ll start these lovely people off with what the internet is. From its’ 1970s start up until its’ first graphical updo that transpired in the early 90s when HTML was taking shape and tags, such as the one, were getting rules of engagement from BBS systems to form what we have today. Oh, I’m sure they go THAT far. As for myself, I’ll give a bit of what happens when sites are accessed. Then again, I still have to dig more into that myself. The conversations were very deep.

As the web is made up of a vast mass of computers connected to each other, think of it as a pretty much as a crapload of universes in Stargate. Browsers usually have a translator in hand for what browsers are about to give to the user visually. Or, Web Browser Engine, if you will.

Example: The Mozilla Firefox client is the prodominent user of the Gecko rendering engine, while Safari and Chrome use the Webkit one. Internet Explorer takes either the reformed Lynx version or Trident(as it did for countless years up to the recent 10 preview). And Opera uses Presto.  Because of some decrepencies, rendering engines differ in terms of how things are translated. From more padding on some elements to elements that have not received translations yet. Even different platforms do the same. Sometimes, web browser engines can be compared to a translator with a foreign language: some translators know certain words that others have yet to uncover.

Each of these computers have addresses, or IP Addresses and URLs. The web browser is similar to a Stargate, or a car dashboard, or door, if anything. After the address is plugged in, the browser takes the user to the address. This opens the universe with the computers files on hand in the folder where the address is pointing to. There is a default page chosen, which usually is index.html - which is coded in HTML or Hypertext Markup Language. They can made in Notepad, or editors like Adobe Dreamweaver to get a bit more help with the syntax.  Pages are formulated this way:

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