From the course: Building a Resilient Web
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The Core web stack
From the course: Building a Resilient Web
The Core web stack
- [Instructor] In developer circles there's a lot of talk of different web stacks, meaning what server architecture a given site or service runs on. I want to narrow down our focus to the core stack, the layers of a website that make the website work and what roles each of those layers should represent and play. Here it goes, at the base we have HTML HyperText Markup language. This is the contents layer where all the actual informational content resides. Every piece of content in the HTML layer is marked up to describe its function in relation to the document. Is it a heading or a paragraph or an unordered list item? Is it part of a larger grouping like a header or navigation menu or main section? Is it an interactive element or a link or a button? All this is declared in the markup surrounding the actual content. The next layer is CSS, cascading style sheets. This is the presentational layer where we declare how we…
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