TLE IV Web Design
History
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, published a website in August 1991. Berners-Lee was the first to combina Internet communication with hypertext.
Websites are written in a markup language called HTML, and the early versions of HTML were very basic, only giving websites basic structure (headings and paragraphs) and the ability to link using hypertext. This is new and different to existing forms of communication. Users could easily navigate to other pages by following hyperlinks from page to page.
As the Web and Web design progressed, the markup language changed to become more complex and flexible, giving the ability to add objects like images and tables to a page. Features like tables, which were originally intended to be used to display tabular information, were soon subverted for use as invisible layout devices. (Leuterio, 2009, p. 351)
