Knowing the basics of HTML is something beneficial to us, either to put on a resume or because it will be something we will work with in our future careers. For this project we worked with markup and markdown, both work with HTML but provide different ways of tackling them. With markup, we need to know how to structure HTML and learn its terminology in order for it work. Markdown does the markup for us, we just need to input the commands and we can get it converted.

Markup would be more beneficial if we were designing a website ourselves. Once you know the language, you can create whatever you would want and place your content in whatever format you deem would be the best to get your message across, however, with more control comes a more time consuming process. Markdown simply takes your text and commands and converts your content to fit a design that is already created. This would work well if you were creating content for a website that is already created and you simply need to add it in. It is a much faster process but it comes with limitations of having significant less control over the design.

With HTML, you have to consider a visual design to go along with what you have written. You have to create a layout, think about color schemes, and work with the limitations of HTML. You also have decide on whether you will include images, video, sources, links, or any other type of media along with your piece. Having a plain page with only text may not be the best way of getting your message across.

However, HTML alone does not provide the most control over a website either. Without the use of CSS, much of the design elements must be left out. HTML provides the structure of a website but CSS allows for the visual elements to be incorporated. Since the project limited our use to only HTML, the page I created could only be manipulated to a certain extent. I noticed that across Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome I had no complications based on what browser was being used to display the website.