What is markup language?

Markup language is method in which the text is annotated or commented so that the document is differentiated and the computer can manipulate it. It is readable by human beings because the text is written in markup tag. When you write the text to be displayed on internet, you need to differ between that text and instructions. So in simple terms markup language is a set of words and tag symbols which give instructions on how that particular document should be displayed in output.

There are broadly three types of markup languages; 1) Presentational.  2) Procedural 3) Descriptive.  Several markup languages like HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), XML (Extensible Markup Language), XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language), MathML (Mathematical Markup Language), RTF (Rich text format), SVG(scalable vector graphics), SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), GuideML (Guide Markup Language) etc are used. In these languages tags are used to manipulate code. Markup language is created by typing code manually or by using editor. Text editors, Object editors, WYSIWYG and WYSIWYM are some of the examples of the editors.

HTML is most commonly used Markup language. It is used to build website. It helps to define how the text, images should be displayed in web browsers. It is one of the standard languages rated by W3C. It uses angular brackets as its tags to define code. E.g. <b> tag is used for to bold the test; <i> tag is used to make text italic; <u> for underline, <img> is used for image, <font> for size and family of font, <p> for paragraph, <marquee> for motion of the text etc.

Designing & Developing Website

Developing a website is easy said, than done. The work needs information about how to initiate.  The languages used for the purpose are known as Markup languages. Before you start on with the task, you must take care of requirements. The concept should be clear much before the whiteboard stage.

There are various Markup languages to select from like Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), Extended Markup Language (XML) and Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) etc. These languages require text editor for development and formatting purpose. The file thus created over text editor is to be saved with respected markup language extension.

Markup languages define tags for related formatting. They are incapable of generating results and hence for further coding either VB or Java are infused.  There other languages like PHP (hyper text pre-processor)  are strong enough to format and code simultaneously.

There are many tools available for aiding the development. These tools are actually the development environment. There are varied types including the one that provides framework and theme to the one where in we have to develop everything from scratch. The site development involves managing content and data queries both.

Data queries are generally meant for passing down the data across the pages or for retrieving it from storage. These queries have to be effective enough to get the required data without delay. To perform such queries it is necessary to have a storage. The storage mostly used is called the database. It is used to store the data acquired from site. This makes processing easy and fast.

Developing a site solely depends on the requirement. If the site is static informative, it will have simple functionality. If site is dynamic and information processing, then it will be complicated.