What does HTML and CSS mean?
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. This is the backbone of any website. HTML is pretty much a text document containing commands for a web-browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox) to follow. So, in a nutshell, a web-browser reads a text document, follows the commands it gives, and shows them graphically on your screen. CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheets. What’s that I hear you say. Well, CSS another type of text document which contains commands, similar to HTML, but CSS is mainly used to make a web-page look pretty. CSS can be used to set the size of paragraphs of text, change font, background colours, position elements on a web page. Okay, so you may still be a little puzzled! Follow me, join in, give it a go and soon things will make sense.
