Are you a budding web designer who wants to be able to construct dynamic, web pages? If so, be open to learn HTML 5, as it will help you to
enhance your web sites, in ways that you may not be able to comprehend, at this
time.
In order to understand why you
should learn HTML 5, it is important to understand the difference between HTML and HTML 5. You might ask whether this
is a question of learning one or the other. In other words, is it a choice of
HTML versus HTML 5?
In order to respond to this
question appropriately, look at each of them, briefly.
What is HTML?
HTML or Hyper Text Markup
Language is computer-based language used to form the basic, building blocks in
the construction of web pages. The history of HTML dates back to the year 1990.
Since that time, it has undergone further developments standardized as HTML 4,
in the year 1997.
What is HTML 5?
HTML 5 is a recent, more
advanced development of HTML 4, in that it will support various forms of
multimedia. (1)
If you are unfamiliar with
HTML, studying it is a good starting place for anyone desiring to learn web
design. Its language employs elements referred to as opening and closing
tags contained in angle brackets that are used to develop web page content. The web
designer inserts various kinds of text, tables and images between the HTML
tags. The web browser reads the HTML code and converts it to visible and
audible content found on a web page. (2)
Of course, because HTML 5 is a
later development, it employs more advanced tags and is able to do more in terms of
the production of web page content by introducing multimedia technology into
the web page format.
By first learning the basic tags of
HTML and how to use them to construct web pages, you will comprehend
introducing HTML 5 tags into web pages, at some time in the future.
If you note what is happening
on various web pages on the Internet, you will see more and more advanced
multimedia technology being introduced. This trend is likely to continue because of
its convenience to the Internet reader, researcher and Internet explorer.
‘A picture is worth a thousand
words’. In our busy, multimedia generation, time is of the essence to those
using the Internet at work and at home. Multimedia presentations are faster.
Thus, a potential web designer
who desires to succeed in the business should seek to learn the basics of HTML and then HTML 5, as this is current technology that will speak to the
Internet audience differently and more profoundly, than just HTML.
At some point in time, there
will only be one Hyper Text Markup Language and this may prove to be HTML 5,
although computer technologists have only begun to tap into its full potential.
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