Before this class I had never heard of semantic markup so it is all new to me and I learned a lot from the readings... but also didn't understand 100% of it at first. But Through some further readings and research I feel comfortable with it.
Semantic markup is a coding system, like html5, that has been written to define the context of the content enclosed in the markup. It is used to structure, index and link text files.
There are several reasons to use semantic markup. It is accessible, understandable and coherent, helps in getting a better search engine ranking, easier to maintain, and it is less code and less cluttered formatting.
Semantic mark up is important, because as seen on page 41 of Learning Web Design having a code framework set up with proper mark up will be vital down the road when using style sheets. When it comes to resizing a browser window you do not know, for example how many lines will be in a paragraph because with proper mark up the lines will change but the overall framework will be consistent.
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