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Building Standard Compliant Websites
I knew! you would visit this page. So you want to learn how to build a website? Ok. There are several ways to build a website. However, before we proceed let me be frank you. The field of website design and development is not for the faint hearted or impatient. There are many books and online articles on how to build a website. Below is a list of methods you can use to build a simple or advanced user-friendly website.
What is a Website?
Lets start first with "what is a website?" A website is a collection of webpages written in standard markup language subsets like HTML, XHTML, or a server-side scripting language like PHP: (Hypertext preprocessor). The pages of a website are connected to each other. They usually share a common theme and relevance to the overall purpose and content of the site that users generally access through the homepage or index page.
Now you know what is a website lets see how it'' components all come together. A Webpage is a text document written inside html tags and published on a Web server. A webpage (Html Document) can also be described as an interactive document with hypertext links, graphics, audio, video and other advanced scripting language applications.
Every Website must have a Home page (Entry Point) or lets call it the first page of a website that visitors usually arrive at if they use the website absolute URL (Address) to get to the site location. You can describe a website homepage as the "Master page." or Website main Index that list, describe and link to the other pages.
Html tags are like containers. They mostly operate in pairs and used to (markup ) define the presentation or framework that structure and indicate certain words are expected to be Headings or a list of paragraphs. A well written html documents must have opening and closing tags to be valid.
This is a pair of tags you can use to emphasize a title, sub-title or document heading. <h1>My First Webpage </h1>. The concept is not hard to grasp. This is a start or opening paragraph tag. <p> You can write some text here and use this </p> for the end or closing paragraph tag. Those tags are some of the most common and basic Html element used in simple webpages.
Remember i mentioned earlier that "web development is not for the faint hearted or impatient." I hope you are none of the two. Are you ready to start building a valid website from scratch? Ok. The first thing you need is (DTD) Document Type Declaration to begin with. It is one of the most complicated piece of Html code to write, or remember how to write it. However, it is a must if you intend to write valid Xhtml documents.
