Jun 3, 2009

Beggar's sign: Will code HTML for food

(click on picture to enlarge)

Maybe I should buy this guy a few meals and have him help me code some pages for this blog. I’d probably get him some clean clothes and insist he take a shower first.

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, which is the major language of the Internet's World Wide Web and is widely used to make web pages. HTML code allows the use of text, pictures, sounds and links. It can also allow the use of scripting such as Java.

The following is how this page looks like in HTML code. There are extra spaces separating the tags (angle brackets) or the HTML code would be invisible when viewed in a browser (for simplicity, the code below is without the document type, heading or body tags):

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Purists would leave more space between components for ease of debugging. I don’t worry about being sloppy because the way I use HTML, it’s really not difficult even though it sometimes drives me nuts trying to find that unclosed tag (or whatever is wrong) in a multi-page document - this is just a couple of paragraphs.