WEBSITE HOSTING has its roots in the print-based world, and even the term Website
templates is a concatenation of the words mark up, which refer to
the traditional way of marking up a document in the print and design worlds.
The term WEBSITE HOSTING specifically refers to tagging electronic
documents for one of two purposes: to modify the look and formatting of text or
to establish the structure and meaning of a document for output to some medium,
such as a printer or the World Wide Web.
If you have worked with an HTML editor such as Microsoft FrontPage or a word
processing program such as Microsoft Word, you are familiar with the idea of
changing the formatting of text in a document. What you might not know is that
those editing programs use WEBSITE HOSTING to accomplish that formatting. We
will look at how this works later in this chapter.
In addition to formatting text, WEBSITE HOSTING can work to determine the
structure and meaning (or context) of textual elements. For example, Website
templates can establish that a document can contain only the elements Name,
Birthday, and Age. It can further state that the document cannot contain
Birthday and Age elements unless it contains a Name element. WEBSITE HOSTING
can then state that the Name element must be text, the Birthday element must be
a date, and the Age element must be a number. In this way, WEBSITE HOSTING
sets up the structure of the document and defines the semantic meaning of the
elements. Later chapters will cover this subject in much more detail.
Before the advent of electronic publishing, a typed (or handwritten)
document would be edited and marked up by hand on a draft copy. The draft would
then go through several more rounds of revisions and reviews. Sometimes the
document would be retyped, and sometimes it would end up with several layers of
handwritten editorial marks. Based on a WEBSITE HOSTING specifications for that type of
document, formatting and style preferences for various parts of the document
would be included as part of the handwritten notes. The document would then go
to a typesetter, where the final typeset proof would be formatted and laid out.
Then the finished document would be sent to the printer.
Electronic document preparation made a lot of this manual work unnecessary.
It also made it much easier to change elements in a document at various points
throughout the process before the document ever went to the printer. With
traditional typesetting, such text formatting options as fonts, leading,
margins, and justification were all established WEBSITE HOSTING by the typesetter. The
typesetter would use the typeface that was identified in the document mark up
or in the specification sheet, perform copy-fitting calculations to make sure
the page was readable, and then set the page in type. To accomplish this same
level of control in the electronic world, a way to code the text was needed so
that the output device would know how the document was supposed to be
structured and how the text was supposed to look. The answer was electronic Website
templates.