Introduction to Web Programming - Part 1

Whenever you open your web browser and go to a website you are interacting with one or more web programmers and/or designers who have created the web page you are visiting. The text they have written and the graphics they have created, along with the programming they’ve written are all taken by your browser and displayed on your monitor (or your speakers, or other human interface device, but let’s not make this complicated yet!).

Design Vs. Programming

First, there may be some confusion regarding the difference between design and programming. We will use the term design to refer to the graphics and color schemes used to control the display of the web site. These tutorials will have very little to teach you about designing graphics for the web. We will touch on some issues regarding colors and fonts, but it will not be covered in depth.

We will define web programming as the various instructions that are written so that the website will be displayed as intended in the client browser. Web programming as used in this tutorial will fall into 5 programming languages or types of instructions:

1. XHTML
2. CSS
3. Javascript
4. PHP
5. MySQL

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