To supplement my Dreamweaver classes, I am also taking a couple of HTML classes. Knowing just the bare minimum, I quite enjoyed the first level of this class. Here are a few things I learned. A quick warning: If any of you are HTML savvy, this is going to sound pretty elementary to you.
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language and it’s the predominant language for the web. The basic format for HTML looks something like this:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
If you wanted to check your website to see if it is valid HTML, you can go to: http://validator.w3.org/. If everything checks out you will receive a little logo (like the one to the left) that you can add to your website. It just indicates that you have run you site through the validator and it came out with no coding mistakes.
Another interesting thing I learned was that Internet Explorer is a headache for web developers. It doesn’t quite follow the HTML standards that w3c has defined. So if you’re using Internet Explorer and the website you’re viewing looks funky, try a different browser like Firefox or Safari.