Behind every great website, and many phone applications and games, is HTML. HTML is the essential building block of the web, and is a great first language to learn when starting in web development. It is not so much a programming language as it is a means of tagging and organizing content within a page. To make a website truly come to life, you will eventually need to combine HTML with CSS and JavaScript. While it may look complicated, HTML is not a difficult language. You can learn the basics in less than a day, but it can be a real chore to master everything. Our free videos and tutorials make learning HTML easy and fun.
When first delving into web development, the number of programming languages can be overwhelming. It’s true that you will need to learn multiple languages to be able to build dynamic websites, apps, and games, but you don’t need to learn everything…
continue reading →Now that you have a general understanding of the technology behind web applications, lets take a closer look at Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is used to mark up the content of a web page with elements. Elements are generally made up of an…
continue reading →The HTML elements we used to create the structure of our first web page not only gave shape to our page, but also told us a lot about the type of content they contained. Heading elements helped us organize sections of our page, and the blockquote…
continue reading →With the increasing popularity of short-form journalism, how can we talk about lists without mentioning listicles? While I enjoy a good top ten list as much as the next person, what I really find amazing are those catchy headlines. Do you want to…
continue reading →Now that you are familiar with structural and semantic HTML, you know enough to start fleshing out a website. As you add more pages to your website, I bet you are wondering how to connect everything. We can’t very well ask our users to type in a new…
continue reading →One thousand and one words is worth more than a picture, but not by much. Text certainly has its place in a web page, but sometimes a picture can convey a message much more quickly and effectively than a paragraph. With the HTML img element…
continue reading →HTML tables have gained some (deservedly) negative notoriety over the years for being used to build web page layouts. Should you ever come across a website built with tables, scream and run around in circles until it crawls back into the hole from…
continue reading →Regardless of what others will tell you, the internet is for forms. There are forms everywhere! Online shopping, personality quizzes, web mail, and even password login systems are all examples of forms. Forms are an excellent way to make a website…
continue reading →If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine what thousands of pictures played back to back at a rate of 24 to 30 images per second would be worth? That’s like a bajillion words, at least. We’d never have to write anything ever again! Lucky for us…
continue reading →Remember way back when we made our first web page, I mentioned that the body element was where all of our visible elements go. So where do we put the invisible stuff? More importantly, what’s the point of invisible stuff? What does that even mean…
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