All modern websites and web applications are built using three
fundamental
technologies: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. These are the languages of the
web.

In this post, let’s focus on HTML. We will learn what HTML is all about,
and why you too should learn it.

What is HTML?

HTML stands for HyperText
Markup Language. It’s a markup
language that web developers use to structure and describe the content
of a webpage (not a programming language).

HTML consists of elements that describe different types of content:
paragraphs, links, headings, images, video, etc. Web browsers understand
HTML and render HTML code as websites.

In HTML, each element is made up of 3 parts:

1. The opening tag
2. The closing tag
3. The actual element

You can learn more at
MDN Web Docs.

Why should you learn HTML?

There are countless reasons for learning the fundamental language of the
web. Here are 5 of them:

• To be able to use the fundamental web dev language
• To hand-craft beautiful websites instead of relying on tools like
  Worpress or Wix
• To build web applications
• To impress friends
• To have fun 😃

Hopefully you learned something new here. See you next time!