The Importance of HTML in Website Design

Although we have been blessed with the innovation of technology and the human pursuit to make thing simpler with web-authoring software, understanding and knowing how to use the standard HTML code is still imperative.

As complex as it may seem, it is still the fundamental basis of the World Wide Web. Every single web page, image, sound, even details down to the color of the background of the page are coded for in the Hypertext Markup Language code. Thus, whatever we may see on the webpage is guaranteed to have a specific code in the HTML sequence that dictates the format of webpage. If a problem is ever encountered in the design of the wepbage, and it cannot be rectified by the sophisticated web-authoring software, the HTML form of the document can always be retrieved. Errors that occur on websites can never be detected while viewing the actual page because browsers are designed to recover from an author's errors in the HTML code. Once the HTML code for the webpage is displayed, the entire framework is available to us, and by knowing how to correctly code different elements of the webpage, the problem can be identified and rectified. This is just one example of why knowledge of the HTML code is really important and should be understood by anyone wanting to design a webpage- similarly, you cannot run before you are able to walk. Another reason the HTML code is really useful, is because it is a universal code, webpages may be viewed and manipulated by any operating system.