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6 Web Technologies That Matter

A quest for knowledge

Unfamiliar web technologies make starting a business website unnecessarily confusing. The purpose of this article is to provide some information on industry standard technologies. I understand that not everyone has the same level of knowledge when it comes to the internet, so I'd like to give you a brief run down.

Extensible HyperText Markup Language

(X)HTML and HTML formats and describes the content of a web page. It does this through a number of tags that make up your web page. A simple tag to understand is the bold tag. <b>Everything</b> between these tags made up of arrows, a letter and a slash combine to together to make that text bold.

Cascading Style Sheets

CSS is used to control the style of elements contained in a HTML document. A good technique is to keep your HTML and CSS in different files. This makes websites easier to manage later on when you want to change a design element, because you can change one file to edit a whole website.

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