Week 3 Networked Media Production
This weeks lecture focussed on a general overview of HTML and CSS. HTML standing for Hyper Text Markup Language and CSS standing for Cascading Style Sheet. Both are describing languages and are used to provide a description for the texture of web based content. XML (extensible markup language) was also discussed and how it differs from HTML in such a way that it does not conform to the same tagging rules. For example, you are able to describe the content with self made tags such as <tree> </tree> or <coffee> <type> espresso </type> </coffee> whereas with HTML, tagging is slightly more restricted because there are a defined set of tags you have to use, For Example, every web page needs to have <html> <body> </body> </html>. However, HTML and XML both have the same GENERIC structure, they are simply TEXT.
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
CSS are a set of instructions/rules that instruct a web browser how to display HTML elements, namely TEXT in regard to colour, font and the overall layout of the HTML page.
I was unable to attend the lab session on Thursday due to illness, however, I have emailed Mitchell to check what I missed in order for me to catch up and so i can add further information to this blog post with reference to the material covered in the lab.
