My HTML & CSS Skills

"HTML is the core foundational standard being worked on by the WHATWG community . . . Along with defining the HTML markup language, it also defines many of the core requirements that form the basis of the web runtime."

"CSS . . . is a style sheet language that allows authors and users to attach style (e.g., fonts and spacing) to structured documents (e.g., HTML documents and XML applications)."

HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is a markup language used to create visual web pages. It was developed in the 1990s, originally as a tool for describing scientific documents, and has grown to become today’s standard markup language for web pages. HTML provides the building blocks for website building.

CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a style sheet language used to format the visual presentation of documents written in markup language—commonly, HTML—allowing the user to design the layout, color, fonts, and more of their HTML pages. Without CSS, HTML is minimalistic and difficult to read. When CSS and HTML are combined, they create the engaging, readable websites to which modern internet users are accustomed.

I began to self-teach HTML and CSS in the summer of 2020. I wanted to learn how to create a website from scratch, so I created this personal website using GitHub Pages as a host and HTML and CSS to build the site. You can see the HTML and CSS I used to build this site on my GitHub repo.