OUGD504: Brief 3- Web terminology

This brief for myself is quite a daunting prospect because I haven't hand coded a website before nor do I fully understand the basics of being able to design for screen as I have mainly focused on print for previous projects. So therefore to broader my understanding I have borrowed a few books from the library and have been recommended a couple of websites to begin research into how coding and web design works. 

http://www.w3schools.com and http://www.codecademy.com/learn

Basic terminology: 

HTML: Stands for "Hyper-Text Markup Language." This is the language that Web pages are written in. Also known as hypertext documents, Web pages must conform to the rules of HTML in order to be displayed correctly in a Web browser. The HTML syntax is based on a list of tags that describe the page's format and what is displayed on the Web page.

http://www.techterms.com/definition/html

URL: is the web adress/ domain name

A domain name is a unique name that identifies a website. For example, the domain name of the Tech Terms Computer Dictionary is "techterms.com." Each website has a domain name that serves as an address, which is used to access the website.

http://www.techterms.com/definition/domain_name

CSS: Stands for "Cascading Style Sheet." Cascading style sheets are used to format the layout of Web pages. They can be used to define text styles, table sizes, and other aspects of Web pages that previously could only be defined in a page's HTML.

CSS helps Web developers create a uniform look across several pages of a Web site. Instead of defining the style of each table and each block of text within a page's HTML, commonly used styles need to be defined only once in a CSS document. Once the style is defined in cascading style sheet, it can be used by any page that references the CSS file. Plus, CSS makes it easy to change styles across several pages at once. For example, a Web developer may want to increase the default text size from 10pt to 12pt for fifty pages of a Web site. If the pages all reference the same style sheet, the text size only needs to be changed on the style sheet and all the pages will show the larger text.

http://www.techterms.com/definition/css