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Creating Web Page and Web Sites
1) Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), a formatting language used to create Web pages, defines a Web page through tags, or markups, which are codes that specify how text, graphics, and other elements display and where links lead. The Web browser then reads and interprets the tags.

2) Instead of learning and writing HTML code, many Web designers utilize WYSIWYG editors. WYSIWYG stands for “what you see is what you get.” Microsoft Frontpage, Adobe GoLive, and Macromedia Dreamweaver (in both the PC and Mac versions) are three of the most popular WYSIWYG editors. Because these editors generate HTML code and scripts automatically, a designer would not need to learn scripting languages, or HTML and hand code Web pages in a text editor such as Notepad on a PC or Simple Text on a Mac. Instead, a designer utilizing a WYSIWYG editor drags and drops page elements in a window, and the HTML and scripting codes are generated behind the scenes.

3) Microsoft Office Applications With any program in MS Office XP or Microsoft Office 2003 — Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint — you quickly and easily can create Web pages simply by clicking the Save as Web Page command on the File menu. Although Office XP programs efficiently generate basic HTML documents, they are not the best for creating Web pages or Web sites.

4) The primary purpose of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is to control the presentation of the content by applying styles to such elements as type, margins, positioning, colors, and more. Cascading refers to the order in which the different styles are applied. CSS is becoming more and more popular among designers as an alternative to hard coding style elements in Web pages.

5) Scripting languages, which are advanced programing languages, are utilized to write scripts. Scripts are short programs that your visitors’ Web browsers run. These programs, when added to basic HTML documents, make your Web pages dynamic and interactive, with such features as multimedia, animation, forms that allow you and your visitors to communicate, and scrolling text. A programmer would utilize scripting languages more often than would the typical Web designer. Javascript, Active Server Pages (ASP) and Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), and MySql are widely-used scripting languages.

6) Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that through predefined or customized, self-defined tags offer a designer greater freedom to arrange or present information than HTML. XML, like HTML, uses markups to define the content of a Web page.  It defines content related to the information being described.

7) Wireless Markup Language (WML), a subset of XML, is used to design Web pages specifically for micro-browsers such as handheld computers, PDAs, cellular telephones, and pagers. It allows for the display of the text portion of Web pages.