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What Languages Do You Need To Create A Website?

There are lots of different programming languages you could use to create and add functions to a website. The two that are crucial to making an attractive and functional website are HTML and CSS programming languages.

So we are going to start with HTML and CSS languages.

But I don’t know Hutumelle or seass languages.

What?

Hutumelle and seass. I can’t speak those.

Oh you mean HTML and CSS.

These are acronyms and so you pronounce the letters as they are. Like you do with the BBC or RSPCA because each letter stands for a separate word.

Fine, but I still don’t know anything about these languages.

How do you say 'salmon' in HTML?

It doesn’t quite work like that.

I’ll show you, it’s actually quite easy to read when you get the hang of it.

HTML is used to describe what is in the web page such as some text, an image, a button or a link to another page. CSS is then used to describe how it is presented in the webpage. Things like colour, size and position are described by CSS. When a computer reads in combination the HTML, saved in a HTML file, and the CSS, saved in a CSS file, it understands how to make your website. Just like how with an ingredients list and a recipe you can make a meal or a cake or some cat snacks.

How Do You Say 'Salmon' In HTML?

If you are describing the contents of a room, you may say there is a hat, a skirt or a blanket. This description says what is in the room, like HTML does for a webpage. Now if you wanted to describe the room in more detail so that anybody could draw it, much like you want any computer to present your webpage properly, you would have to add some adjectives. Saying there is a black hat, or a red skirt or large blanket on the floor are all ways of adding detail about how the contents look and this is what CSS is used for.

Could you say there is a big, warm, fluffy blanket on the floor?

Yes, those are ways of describing the blanket.

Mmmm, so which room were we talking about?

There is no room, I made it up to help explain.

Oh, that is disappointing. I’ll just lay in your suitcase again.

You Didn't Need These Clothes Did You?

In the example below the orange text states an item or a thing, the bottom example is something you can create in HTML. The blue text gives detail about what it looks like, like CSS will do for your website.

Which Word Did Aria Not Like?

Lots of other languages can be used to add different features to your website but a lot of websites, particularly if they are just for displaying information, can get by with just HTML and CSS.

For those wondering, HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. Which can be confusing because you code more than just text, there's buttons and spaces for photos too, and it's long, so it gets shortened to HTML.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet. This is less confusing than HTML as CSS is used to style your website, but still, CSS is much more convienient.