Introduction to web and html

Introduction to web and html

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Web servers are the software that is used to host the services. It takes a request from a user via HTTP and gives a response accordingly. There are two types of server

  1. Local server - one of them is a live server by "Ritwik day" which helps the programmer to see the changes in the webpage in real-time. it does it by using many scripts and constantly interacting with the memory if there is any change in the state of the page.

  2. Web Server - The Apache HTTP Server is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software, developed and maintained by an open community of developers.This type of server host the data of the user and provide the result whenever the user asks for it via HTTP or HTTPS.

Html - It is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.

Different tags used in the HTML:

  1. h1: This tag is used to define the most important heading, it has the biggest heading size

  2. h2: This tag is also used to define headings that have less size than h1.

  3. a: This tag is used to define a hyperlink to another page. It can have href attribute for hyperlink reference
    or it can be left blank for placeholders for hyperlinks.

  4. p: This tag is used to display paragraphs on a page.

  5. lorem ipsum: It is a text generator that generates any number of text which don't have meaning but help the developers to check how the text will look on a certain page.

  6. img: It is used to put images on a webpage. it has attributes

    a. src: which defines the source of the image.

    b. alt: when the image is not able to load alt text will appear which helps in debugging and identifying which image is missing.

    c. title: used to give the title of the image when someone hovers the mouse.

    d. height, width: to define the height and width.