What is a website?

A lot of people are net surfing by using a web browser but don't know what a website is.

A website is a document you can access by using the Internet and will contain information about a person, a company, a product or a service. A website can have text, images and videos.

A website is made by HTML or XHTML languages.

Let's try to see one part of the Crystal Rod website written in XHTML:

<div class="content">
    <h2>Features of Crystal Rod Web designing</h2>
<p>
      <span class="inline inline-right">
         <img src="/sites/default/files/images/cr2_icon003.jpg">
      </span>
</p>
<p>Crystal Rod Web Design is made with the following features:</p>
<ul>
      <li>Valid XHTML and CSS</li>
      <li>Search engine friendly</li>
      <li>Accessibility by targeted visitors</li>
      <li>Friendly interface and navigation</li>
      <li>Select CMS tool that can fit clients' request for their Websites</li>
</ul>
</div>

If you see that in a web browser, it will look like this:

This still does not look so nice. Websites are also using one more system called CSS (cascading style sheets). CSS is the one giving some style to the website, for example layout, color and format.

Let's see a sample of the CSS code that is working for the XHTML you could see before:

h2 
{
   border-bottom:1px dotted #CCCCCC;
   color:#0099CC;
   font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
   font-size:1.15em;
   font-weight:bold;
   padding-bottom:2px;
}

span.inline-right 
{
   display:block;
   float:right;
   margin:5px 0 5px 5px;
}

.block .content li 
{
   background-image:url(images/menu-leaf.png);
   background-position:0 0.6em;
   background-repeat:no-repeat;
   list-style-image:none;
   list-style-type:none;
   padding-left:1em;
}

After using CSS, our example can look like this:

Now you know that this website is made with XHTML and CSS. We, web designers and web developers, are working for website by writing XHTML and CSS.

In my opinion, web designing work is not like art, I feel it's like mathematics. If you are good at mathematics you may be able to be a good web designer or web developer.