How To Become A Web Developer: The Ultimate Guide

What is HTML?

For the uninitiated: HTML is a standard language that provides a way to present information using a structured language. Basically, you write programs to "handle" HTML. So it's a programming language for your web browser! There's a lot more to it than that, but this is the foundation. Why is HTML useful? It's possible to express any kind of information and manipulate its format with simple code. You can get some pretty complex stuff done with HTML. Here's a quick example:

<div>Hello world</div>

What is CSS?

Before I get started I'd like to define what CSS stands for. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and it's what makes websites look the way they do. Essentially CSS is used to describe the way a webpage is styled. This can involve anything from altering the colours and fonts to the overall layout of the page. So, what is the difference between CSS and HTML? CSS (which stands for cascading style sheets) and HTML (which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language) are essentially different ways to describe how a website is built. HTML refers to the HTML code that tells the browser how to display an HTML document and how to interact with it. On the other hand, CSS refers to the style sheet that allows a browser to alter the way a website looks.

What is JS?

JavaScript is a programming language that lets you build interactive web applications. Because of the popularity of CSS and the general increase in mobile web use, JavaScript has become a requirement for web developers. This means that you should know some basic HTML to begin with as this is the language that allows you to read and write data to the browser. It also allows you to display data and manipulate it in the browser. HTML is a markup language used to present the information on the web. What are HTML tags? An HTML tag can be used to add items to a page. They can either be used in combination with CSS or JavaScript.