XHTML and CSS are the building blocks, the stuff of which web pages
are made. They're not programming languages, rocket science or some
mysterious code that only geeks learn to do. They are both rather straightforward
and logical formatting and layout systems by which we create (markup)
web pages.
XHTML is...
used to make paragraphs, tables, lists, links,
and form boxes, among other things, on web pages. It provides the essential
ingredients for putting a page together, much like building a house
that needs a roof, rooms, walls, and a basement.
You may have heard about its earlier version, HTML. Sometimes people
refer to it as Tags. XHTML stands for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language.
See how XHTML works with the Free Trial,
the Code Tester, a tool used in the Workshop.
CSS stands for...
Cascading Style Sheets. It's the way we bring color, font types, layout,
and positioning to a web page. It works alongside XHTML. If we were
building a house, CSS would be the house color, window treatments, floor
coverings, and furniture placement.
It provides the decoration, the sizzle of a site.
Put 'em both together and you've got your formula to do something useful
on the web and make some magic at the same time.
And that's just what you'll be learning in the online workshop, Introduction
To XHTML And CSS!!
