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[daleclara]

For those who need a brief description on the languages, here it is – HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and XML (eXtensible Markup language) are the three commonest languages used for designing. While the basic language is HTML, CSS is the language used to make the site more attractive. XML is used for programming. Now, XHTML has been formulated which is the reformulation of HTML 4 as per the XML application.

Which Language to Choose?

As per the above description, the three are needed together. Without HTML, CSS is not effective and without CSS, HTML looks like a plain white page with some text. So, rather than focusing on any one, there should be a balance of all.

[NDBoost]

daleclara, on Sep 14 2009, 10:39 AM, said:

For those who need a brief description on the languages, here it is – HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and XML (eXtensible Markup language) are the three commonest languages used for designing. While the basic language is HTML, CSS is the language used to make the site more attractive. XML is used for programming. Now, XHTML has been formulated which is the reformulation of HTML 4 as per the XML application.

Which Language to Choose?

As per the above description, the three are needed together. Without HTML, CSS is not effective and without CSS, HTML looks like a plain white page with some text. So, rather than focusing on any one, there should be a balance of all.

you didnt describe XM and why its useful.

[Mr. Matt]

Well you pretty much answered it yourself, without HTML, CSS is absolutly useless as all it does it describe how the html document should be formatted. So the most basic of things to learn is HTML and CSS as they are the bare basics of web designing these days, if you can master them then take it a step further and look at another language like Javascript, XML or even a backend language like ASP or PHP which take your basic html page with css formatting to another level.

[tomylee]

all the languages are important for the web designing.

[camboreadcenter]

the most important is CSS

[kendustin7]

I think all language has it's own importance, there is nothing like that CSS is better or HTML is better. It depends on an individual person with which language he is comfortable and it depends on the the designing you want to build.

[faerrleah]

For designing basic website you only need HTML and CSS knowledge. HTML helps in designing a webpage and CSS helps in formatting a webpage in a website. These are basic concepts which are used for web designing...

[cmack]

http://www.psd2htmlmasters.com/

These guys are pretty good

[Slawbawn]

camboreadcenter, on May 5 2010, 05:22 PM, said:

the most important is CSS

How is CSS the most important? Without the HTML document for the CSS to be linked to, what will the CSS document do? It'll sit there doing nothing.

Whilst each language is important in its own way, HTML is by far the most important language; regardless of how little it does on the web page.

[princefarr]

The most basic things to learn HTML and CSS is that it is the bare basics of web design these days, if you can master them and then take a step further and look at another language like JavaScript, XML, or even language ASP or PHP as the backend which is based on you HTML page with CSS formatting to another level.