HTML, CSS & JavaScript

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HyperText Markup Language (HTML) was created in 1989 by Tim-Berners Lee as a means of enabling his fellow researchers at CERN to use and share structured documents.

HTML is the language that the web browser – Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Opera, whatever your flavour – on your computer, phone, tablet, television, etc. uses as a way of presenting the text, images, video and audio material on web pages.

HTML has been the backbone of the web for over thirty years now.

If HTML can be said to provides the substance, then Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can be said to provide the (ahem!) style!

Almost as old a language as HTML, CSS was created in 1996 specifically for enabling the separation of content from design on web pages.  Designers and developers use CSS to control the layout, colours and typography of web pages.  As HTML has developed, so has CSS, with style sheets now being used to control more sophisticated techniques such as animation, something that previously might have been achievable with another programming language or other software.  (Who remembers Flash intros – anyone?)

Where HTML and CSS are not been able to achieve a desired effect, there’s JavaScript. As WikiPedia notes, JavaScript is the third core language of the web with the vast majority of websites using it and every major web browser being able to run it in some form.

As JavaScript has developed and become more standardised, various libraries have been created.  The most popular of these is jQuery, which comes with a lot of features built in that meaning you’re not re-inventing the wheel every time you want to display content in an accordion, for example.

At Digital Consortium we want you to succeed. With our many years of working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, we can help you to make the most of your website build, whether it’s simply making sure the basics are right, or advanced techniques such as Schema – for structured mark-up to help with search engines – or animation (for design flourishes or for online advertising banners).

If you want to talk about your website, get in touch today.