Jon
Moorman
GRPH
312
01/09/13
HTML, HTML Emails, CSS, and HTML5
HTML is
used to create web pages. It stands for HyperText Markup Language. The best way
to describe it is as a coded language, that it used to develop and build web
pages, and other info in a web browser. It is comprised of elements and tags
that are added to the words, so that the browser can know/pick-up what is a
heading, a paragraph, an image, and so on. CSS uses rules to enable you to
change styling and layout of webpages. There are two properties of CSS rules.
These include Properties, and Layout. Presentation is how to control things
like color of text, fonts, and size of fonts, background colors, etc. Layout is
how different elements are positioned on the screen. And example of HTML is the following:
Example of
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE
html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>Heading</h1>
<p>Paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML5 is
the newest updated version of HTML. HTML has gone through many updates and
version, and while this one is still not considered complete, there are ways to
access certain features of HTML5.
The relation between HTML and CSS is that they are both used to create
and develop web pages. Both tools are used together to make some of the most
aesthetically appealing pages, and some of the most successful ones as well.
Basically, HTML is used to ‘put’ everything onto the page, while CSS is used to
basically ‘pretty up’ everything in short. An HTML email is the use of a subset
of HTML to provide formatting capabilities in email that are not readily
available with plain text. Through researching I have found some interesting
things on the topic of HTML email. One is that apparently there is on and off
dispute on if HTML email is either good or bad. In other words it is questioned
if the pros out rule the cons. I
found a site online listing seven reasons why HTML email is a bad thing. This
is one of the many sources on this topic that you can find online. However, the
one reason that I can see or rely on always popping up is about viruses. ‘Both
plain text and HTML mail may carry malware attachments but with HTML there is a
significantly greater risk since some malware can exploit vulnerabilities in
the HTML parser to automatically execute code as soon as the message is viewed
in the preview pane.’
This is
just however one of the negative sides to it, when in reality it seems much
good can come of using HTML email. I am excited to learn and grow in the field
of web design, to one day hopefully apply it when looking for a promising
design career out of school.
Examples of
HTML email:
Citations
George Dillon. (March 19, 2006). 7
Reasons HTML Is Evil. In Introduction. Retrieved January 9, 2013, from www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml.
. (2005). HTML Introduction. In
W3Schools. Retrieved January 9, 2013, from http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp.
Indiana University. (January 6,
2013). How can I learn about HTML?. In University Information Technology
Services. Retrieved January 9, 2013, from http://kb.iu.edu/data/adjz.html.
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