History of Web Design and the World Wide Web

 

The History of Web Design and the World Wide Web

The inventor of the World Wide Web is credited to Tim Berners-Lee whom published the first website in August 1991. However the internet itself in the form of emails and Usenet had been around for some years. Tim introduced HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) to the internet allowing others to see formatted information from a remote location.

Over the years the Internet, and Web Sites have continued to grow at an astonishing rate. HTML has also continued to develop and become more flexible allowing web designers to achieve much more with their web sites.

Web Site Design

A web site is the collection of web pages relating to a specific subject, organisation or topic that are usually stored on a common domain name or subdomain. Web pages commonly include text, links, pictures, animations (flash) and other media such as videos and audio files. Web pages themselves are simple plain text files editable in applications such as Notepad containing HTML. These files are then interpreted by your web browser and displayed as the websites you commonly see. Different web site browsers may display the same HTML file in a different manner. To combat this several standards have been introduced to try and minimise the problems this causes for both internet surfers and web site designers.

HTML in brief

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is basically a collection of instructions used to tell your internet browser what and how to display the webpage. It uses “Tags” to achieve this with attributes being made available to them. For example simple text can for example be made bold by adding the tag your bold text here, although the use of style scripts (CSS Cascading Style Sheets) have made many of these tags redundant.

Another example is the link tag your link here this tag tells browsers that the text between the tags should be presented as a link. Now you can tell the browser which web site the link should point to by adding the href attribute. Hence Adshires Web Design would display the words Adshires Web Design which when clicked on take your direct to Adshires.

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