Beyond HTML Advanced Concepts Behind the Scenes on Your Website
CSS – Cascading Style Sheets • CSS apply style elements consistently across multiple pages of a site. • CSS styles offer great flexibility in that style is not confined to text objects. • You can define positioning and formatting styles to text, images, tables, layers, and so on.
Everytime I Hear About HTML, I alss Hear About SGML, and XML. What are they?
HTML • HTML is a stunningly, easy language that took computer programming out of the hands of men with slide rules and gave it to you and me. • Introducing SGML and XML, in my mind is the first real shot higher ups have of driving people away
SGML – Standard Generalised MarkUp Language • SGML is the mother of HTML • You have the ability to create your own tags using relatively complex SGML commands. • HTML is simply a set standard of tags, under the huge SGML umbrella.
XML – Extensible Mark-Up Language • • • •
A subset of SGML, just like HTML. A very simplified version of SGML. If SGML is a bear XML is a Kitten It allows you to setup your own tags and mathematical equations using the commands you can understand.
Other Concepts • • • •
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