Style starts here CSS was created to separate the styling from the structure of an HTML document. We’ll explore three types of CSS inclusions: inline, internal, and external. We’ll only focus on the basics. We’ll style text, images, and a few other HTML elements. The main focus of this chapter though will be on responsive design. Responsive design allows your website to scale properly across any screen size. We’ll tackle this the hard way first, utilizing pure CSS only, and then we’ll use the Bootstrap framework to simplify that process. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the “language for describing the presentation of web pages, including colors, layout, and
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Where plain markup falls short There are a few issues that HTML cannot solve. HTML is great for displaying small information to a user, but it lacks in displaying a large number of content: think about an e-commerce website. Those websites might have hundreds of thousands of item numbers and each of those item numbers might produce a single page. Do you think that each page is created by a person? Of course not. Next, think about a form on a website. What happens when you fill out your information and click submit? Magic? HTML cannot answer those questions for
HTML evolves into a richer web standard HTML5 is the latest version of HTML and was standardized in 2014 by the W3C. HTML5 was created to take over HTML4 and XHTML. HTML5 provides the developer with APIs for web applications. It also introduces new syntax to the equation. HTML5 enhances the semantics of the content we create, especially when that content is being grouped together. Certain tags that were not available in HTML4 or its predecessors include: <video> <audio> <section> <article> <header> <footer> <nav> <aside> <main> The W3 standard is created and updated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Meet the building blocks of markup It’s time to start looking at the various HTML elements that make up the HTML language. The elements that we’re going to examine in this section are: <a> <br /> <button> <em> <form> <h1> <h2> <hr /> <img> <input> <li> <table> <thead> <tr> <th> <tbody> <td> <textarea> <ul> Let’s examine the code on the next page in more detail. It may look cluttered in the beginning, but when you start looking at it closely, you’ll notice that it follows a simple pattern. Let’s look at the code together. We’ll begin by locating the opening
Lay the foundation of every webpage We’re ready to start looking at what makes up HTML. We’ll examine HTML elements and we’ll see how those elements fit together to form a web-page. Later, we’ll look at HTML5 and some of the differences between it and the previous versions. Each HTML site has a few tags that must be present. These include the doctype, html tag, head tag, and body tag. As a matter of fact, each time you start creating any website, you’ll want to include these elements first to get them out of the way of more complicated code.
Artificial intelligence is forcing a pivotal strategic choice for today’s businesses. Across industries, executives face a critical decision: some adopt AI defensively to streamline processes and cut costs, while others use it offensively as a platform for innovation and grow. This fundamental divide between “Efficiency AI” and “Opportunity AI” is shaping which companies become industry leaders and which fall behind. On one side, AI promises quick productivity boosts and cost savings: an attractive short-term win for efficiency-focused firms under pressure to improve margins. On the other side, AI opens doors to entirely new products, services, and business models: a long-term
Build the web one tag at a time HTML is a markup language that is read by the web-browser and translated into the website that a user can interact with. HTML stands for Hyper-Text-Markup-Language. There exist numerous HTML elements that make up each web-page. To get acquainted with some of these, right click on your favorite website and click on “View Page Source” (this procedure varies slightly from browser to browser). You should see some code resembling the one listed below. Reviewing this portion, you’ll notice that there exist elements and each element has an opening tag and a closing
A $3B Bet on AI-Assisted Development OpenAI’s recent $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf, an AI-powered coding tool formerly known as Codeium, sent a clear signal through the developer community. This is OpenAI’s largest deal to date, and it isn’t just a splashy buyout; it’s a strategic move that underscores a larger trend in software development. As AI transforms how we write code, the real competitive edge lies in marrying smart models with the right development environment. In other words, even a highly capable AI model like OpenAI’s new “O3” needs a robust IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to deliver true, real-world
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Most enterprise leaders were taught to be cautious with new technologies: wait until the tech is stable, case studies are plentiful, and best practices are clear. It sounds prudent, but in the fast-moving world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) this instinct can be a strategic misstep. What if the best time to invest in AI is actually when things are still messy and unclear? This contrarian idea flies in the face of the usual “wait-and-see” approach, yet it’s exactly how today’s tech leaders are seizing competitive advantage. Generative AI’s explosion in the past two years underscores this: organizations are adopting AI