What is HTML ?

HTML simply stands up for Hyper Text Markup Language. It’s the standard markup language for Web pages that you see everywhere. It contains tags <> and is a very complex thing but very simple to understand if you take it the right way. 

Very complex for many reasons: The main question I am asking myself while we are learning it, is, does it work the same for big website of big companies such as Apple or Amazon. Because as you may all know, for our website to work and display every pages, images, audio, videos they all need to be saved under the same folder on my desktop and only if it is the case the website will work. Here is an example of the folder I have for the exercises we’re doing in class:

So, does Amazon store every content on the same folder like us? In cloud storage I presume but I’ll do some more researches about that to get the answer. The tags can also get you lost because it’s a complex mix of sentences, letters, signs, symbols all mixed together.  

Anyway I also said that it is easy to understand if you take it the right way! The good thing about HTML is that there more logic and common sense than anything else (from my point of view). You need to follow logical codes that you can find anywhere on internet like on this website: Click here !. Here is an example of what we saw in class about HTML:

For a novice like me I think the logic is pretty easy, you just have to follow the different tags, follow a structure and be creative. I think that creativity is the single most important thing in HTML because you can use every tools possible, if you don’t know what to create with it you won’t go very far.

Have you ever used HTML before? Tell me if your first time using HTML was as tough as mine !