If you are reading this article on the Internet, you’re making an indirect use of the technology components we are going to discuss here. Clearly, the importance of the Web-based technologies required for creating and publishing content on the Internet does not need an explanation. However, it raises few obvious questions, such as what programming languages are required to build a Web page or a Web application. This article briefly discusses the programming and markup languages required to create and publish a Web page.

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Markup Language for the Internet

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the language that is required for authoring and publishing a Web page. In other words, whatever you see on a Web browser is written in the HTML language. If you want to write your own Web pages from scratch, learning HTML coding is an essential step.

Programming Languages for Web Development

Whereas HTML enables you to write static Web pages, you also need to learn a Web-enabled programming language to be able to build a dynamic website or a Web application. For instance, few of the most popular programming languages for the Web are, Java, PHP, CGI-Perl, Ruby, ASP, ASP.NET etc. Among all these languages, PHP has earned an enormous popularity for relatively rapid development of dynamic websites, mainly due to its simplicity.

In addition to the programming languages, you also need components like database, various tools and utilities, version control software etc. to complete your programming task. Also, you should have an FTP client in order to transfer your developed website onto a Web server for hosting your website.