When you are a beginner and you want to create a website, you don't know where to start from and what you need to learn. To create a website, first you need to know what technologies are associated with web design. The most important are HTML and CSS.

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the predominant language associated with creation[ADMARK} of web page documents. HTML is also often used to refer to content of the MIME type text/html. XHTML is a hybrid between HTML and XML. If XML was designed to describe data, HTML was designed to display it. To create a website, you need to know the basics of HTML. To learn HTML you will have to write your code by hand.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used to describe how your HTML code should look like. CSS gives more control over 'the looks' of your web pages. CSS has a simple syntax and uses a number of English keywords to specify the names of various style properties. You can publish your website using only HTML, but if you want your website to look more professional, you should use style sheets.

Besides HTML and CSS, there is another simple language, called Javascript. JavaScript is a scripting language that is used to add interactivity and behaviors to web pages. Javascript is not related with Java, it was produced by Netscape. The scripts are normally interpreted by the web browser on the client computer. If you want to be a professional web developer, JavaScript is the first scripting language you should learn.

In this article, I mentioned something about XML. XML is not a specific language in itself, but is a standard for creating markup languages which describe the structure of data. XML allows you to define your own tag. One of the most important disadvantages is that the syntax is redundant and may affect application efficiency through higher storage, transmission and processing costs.