Client Side and Servers Side are the two kinds of technologies
used in web sites. The first type means that the processing of
the technology is done in the web browser. On the other hand,
Server Side is done by the web server.
In your web browser, Client Side technologies use HTML, XHTML
and CSS in order to create web sites. HTML is short for Hyper
Text Markup Language. This is a manner of labeling text so that
the computer can understand what it means and what it wants.
If we are to trace its humble beginning, HTML was created by
Tim-Berners-Lee in the year 1990. This creation was acknowledged
by the W3C or the World Wide Web Consortium. The use of a series
of 'tags' is the function of HTML. To emphasize a word, say to
make the word 'mike' bold, here is the right tag -
mike. The result of which is this - mike. In
order to come up with a whole site, series of appropriate tags
is indispensable.
After HTML came XHTML. This technology means eXtended Hyper Text
Markup Language. It is foretold to constitute a big part of the
world wide web's future. The project of the W3C called "The
Semantic Web" will be utilizing more of XHTML as well as other
latest technologies. This will bring about a modern change that
we never expected since 1990.
Another worth-knowing technology is called CSS. Cascading Style
Sheets or CSS was created by W3C. It is a user-friendly way of
showing what the text is and how it should be displayed in the
page. It guides designers to have the ability to control how the
documents are presented visually in different mediums. This is
an example of how to use it - font-family:Verdana, sans-serif.
This is used to make the web browser use Verdana font. If
Verdana is unavailable, then the default will be sans-serif
font.
CSS allows a single file, style sheet to be utilized for the
whole site. It is also downloaded once, thus saves time and
effort. To learn more about HTML, XTML and CSS, there are lots
of tutorials available in the net.
Make your website catchy, functional and dynamic. Make it
happen, use the best technologies available!
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