My new class has started and it is all about web design. I’m not going to lie, just seeing the textbook we were assigned made me scared for the class because of how big the book was and seeing what we had to work with made my brain hurt. HTML code seemed very confusing at a first glance, but it is pretty straight forward once I saw a demonstration of how it is used to create websites. Who knew all you needed was a word processor and a browser and anyone could easily create a website once they become familiar with the language.
Turns out, HTML is a markup language meaning it is mostly used to create the overall layout, contents of the page, and its structure; not necessarily to make the website functional. You need to use CSS to stylize the look of the web page which includes things like adding colors, changing fonts and their sizes, and much more. To make the web page functional in aspects like having a login screen or submitting a form, you need to use a programming language like JavaScript. JavaScript is way more complicated than the first two I mentioned and it is partly why many people, including me, get scared at just seeing any form of coding at all.
Luckily, this class is only going to cover HTML and CSS. However, I have made a note of possibly learning a programming language in the future as it could be highly beneficial for me to learn.
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