HTML Past and Present

To get the most out of CSS, your HTML code needsSo Colorado web designers started to use tags to
to provide a solid, well-built foundation. This showscontrol appearance rather than structure information.
you how to write better, more CSS throughout yourYou a use use headline tags to make any text bigger
site, html actually become easier to write .you noand bolder-regardless of whether it functions as
longer need to worry about trying to turn html intoheading.
the processing of Denver web design maven it wasIn an even more elaborate workaround, designers
never intended to be; instead, css offers all thelearned how to use the tag to create columns of
graphic design touches you'll likely ever want. andtext, and to accurately place pictures and text on a
your job becomes simpler since html pages writtenpage .unfortunately, since that tag was intended to
to work with css require less code ,less typing ,anddisplay spreadsheet-like data research resulted, train
are easier to create .they all also download faster-aschedules,and so on designers had to get creative by
welcome bonus your sites visitors will appreciateusing the tag in unusual ways, sometimes nesting a
HTML: Past and Presenttable within a table within a table in order to make
As discussed in the introduction, HTML and itstheir pages look good.
successor, XHTML, provide the foundation for everyMeanwhile, browser makers introduced new tags and
page you encounter on the World Wide Web .whenattributes for the specific purpose of making a page
you add css into the mix, the way you use htmllook better. The tag lets you specify a font color,
changes. Say goodbye to repurposing awkward htmltypeface, and one of seven different sizes.
tags merely to achieve certain visual effects. SomeFinally, when designers couldn't get exactly what they
html tags and attributes-like the tag-you can forgetwanted, they often resorted to using graphics. they'd
completely.use a very large graphic as background for a web
HTML Past: Whatever Looked Goodpage or slice it up into smaller graphic files and piece
When a bunch of scientists created the web to helpthem back together inside tabled to recreates the
share and keep track of technical documentation,original image.
nobody called in the graphic designers. All theWhile all of the above techniques using tags in
scientists needed HTML to do was to clearlycreative ways, taking advantage of design a specific
structure information for easy comprehension.tag attributes, and making extensive use of graphics
But as soon as people besides scientist started usinga provide design control over your pages, they also
HTML, they wanted their web pages to look good.add a lot of additional html code.