Tools of Trade - Web design

Below I have listed a range of different tools, methods and vices used within webdesign.
HTML 5 - html5 is the succesor to XHTML1.1. HTML 5 is going to revolutionise the web. It is an extension of HTML4. Html itself is the language that powers the web. The code its self literally marks up the contnet that is presented on every page. HTML stands for hyper text markup langauge. It was developed as a simple language to link text documents together. HTML3 and HTML4 lost there way and allowed developers to specify colours, fonts and other visual content in the markup. This made the code especially messy. With HTML5 and XHTML readressed this by sperating design from content. Instead using a style sheet to add the visuals. HTML5 goes far beyond XHTML with mark up and new tags such as articles, stories, asides, headers and footers- and much more. For the first time web designers can truly mark up their code in such a way that the code can describe the code within properley. This allows search engines to quickly establish the content of a page, and therefore return more accurate results. Also allowing develops to reduce the amount of code they need to write. HTML5 being the future to webdesign and a great addition in developing the website, with most browsers surporting it.

Css3 - Css is an acronym for Cascading Style sheets. This is what makes and is used to create the webpages visualy appealing. Originally webdesigners wrote the code and embeded it straight into the HTML but this led to very heavy code with confusing markups in pages. Css was the solution to the problem allowing the content to be sperate from the deign. Each element in the page can be targeted from CSS and a series of visuals.

Dreamweaver- Dreamweaver is the web design and development tool .Originally the product of Macromedia. Recent versions produce clean code that works well. As well as the ability to edit HTML, CSS, javascript and server side code, other built in functionality includes testing live server and allowing to constanly check the site through any browser in design view.

Javascript- Scripting language that incresingly powers the special user interactions and effects that are on the web. Javascript is now the most popular scripting language within the web. The most advanced user interactions that arent created using flash or sliverlight where powered by javascript. The language allows the developer to respond to user interaction and change elements on the page, from visual characteristics such as width, height, background colour and so on to position visabilty and contents.

wordpress-It is a content management system on the web. The system uses a template scvheme to publish content. This templating system allows the developer to create any number of different looks for a wordpress powered website, all thwe while maintaining the content seperately from the design.

PHP- PHP is a server side language that enables more complex computing that can be achieved server side only. The acronym stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, but originaly stood for Personal Home Page. The code itself is quick to develop and deploy, while retaing full power of a desktop programming language.

MySQL-MySQL is a open source database server.It doesnt have any direct user interface being a relationship database.

Joomla
Joomla is a content management system that is competor of Drupal.

Drupal- This is a free content management system written in PHP. It contains the core features as all common CMS platforms, including user accounts, menu management, content management, page layout and templating.

Flash-Is a multimedia object designed to sit within a website as a plugin or embeded.