A World Cup of controversy

The most popular sports event on Earth, the FIFA World Cup, has been subject to numerous controversies in recent times. Some believe that this tournament, organized once each four years, despite being a sports event, also has political endeavors. From the mysterious opening game of the 2010 version, to the shambolic refereeing of World Cup 2014, the 2022 version has been under the spotlight for quite some time now. For most people on the globe, it was a shock to see Qatar get the green light to organize the World Cup, doubting the integrity of the bidding process, as well as the nation's eligiblity to host this prestigious 32-country worldwide event. This case has triggered noticeable criticism from the media and sports experts, given that Qatar's football history is insufficient, compared to the rest of the candidates. Other reasons include the climate, and the expectedly high ticket cost, additional to the country's human rights background. It's also fair to mention allegations of bribery between Qatar's representatives and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (known as FIFA) members. 
The climate, highlighted as the biggest issue that would occur during the tournament, is considered to be unsuitable for a sports event of this nature. The main reason being that it would affect drastically and negatively the players' performances during the matches, because it will definitely cause them to reach a low energy level quickly, not allowing them to continue in a smooth manner. In order to assess this problem accordingly, Mr. Hassan Al-Thawadi, the nation's bid chief executive, denied that the heat would interfere with the course of the World Cup, stating that his country has taken several measures to ensure that both the players and the spectators are not bothered with the climate, notably equipping the stadiums with modern technology to convert solar energy to electricity, in order to provide a cool environment. As for the FIFA, this latter proposed to shift the 2022 World Cup towards the winter season, receiving more criticism from sporting bodies such as the FA, England's football governing body. Critics argued that it could clash with the Winter Olympics, scheduled the same year, while others claimed it would interrupt the Christmas season, due to the fact that most footballers to participate in the World Cup follow Christianism. The Premier League expressed their concern as they believe that it could also obstruct major football leagues such as La Liga and the Bundesliga, additional to minor complaints from the Australian football federation.
With Qatar's relatively unknown status in football, this drew a lot of criticism especially with the fact that the country's national team has never qualified for the World Cup before winning the bid. The biggest honour that they managed to receive being the Gulf Cup of Nations accolade, twice, in which Qatar was the host. Football, not belonging to Qatar's national culture as a sport, has also drawn more controversy regarding the suitability of the host. Alcohol consumption during the tournament was also a raised concern, considering the religion of the country. Al-Thawadi also stated that it would be allowed to acquire alcohol in certain zones only, with public consumption disallowed.

Away from football: The core of web design: HTML and CSS

In a world where technology invaded all fields, including agriculture, having a website for your company or even a tiny project is considered to be highly important. Therefore, web design is a very needed "skill" in order to properly set up a decent website that is user-friendly. On the other hand, it is not rocket science at all! Fortunately that is, with the existence of two powerful, and modern languages: HTML and CSS. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, while CSS means Cascading Style Sheets. Now that you know what HTML stands for, you will clearly, by now, acknowledge the fact that HTML has the role of "pillars", if I may say so, because it makes the task to structure pages easier for web designers. The latter, CSS, may be slightly hard to understand, but it is pretty much self-explanatory. "Cascading" is a process that signifies, contextually, that the style sheet with the highest priority will control the display of content. Style sheets are basically files that contain declarations to make certain pages look the way the designer/client wants. 
However, perfecting these languages is a bigger task than learning it, due to the fact that experience also plays a major role in web design, because, an experienced web designer has in possession many ways and techniques or general rules that he follows during his work. Techniques, such as - notably - how to center a web page, totally depends on each designer; but they all share one thing, the "wrapper div"! Additional to experience, a solid web designer is regularly up-to-date with the newest features etcetera, including new tags, new properties... Nevertheless, it's not impossible to perfect these languages, nor is it late! Any individual at any age has the mental ability to grasp the aspects of HTML and CSS. It is proven that the more your environment is adapted to a certain language, the faster you'll learn it. Well, that is true! Since we do live in a world of technology, it's definitely easier to learn a computer language than a "spoken" language. How exciting is that? 
Let's dive into the history of these two emphatic languages, shall we? It all began roughly seven years ago, with HTML evolving from a simple language, relying on simple tags, to a more complex mark-up system, allowing people to create animated pages with images, and sound. It has evolved from being HTML+, to HTML 2, HTML 3.2, HTML 4 to reach today's HTML 5. The history of HTML, particularly is related to an English computer scientist named Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, also known as the World Wide Web. It all started when he wondered about a way to link scientists together by putting research documents in one place, meaning, a way to jump from a document to another by pressing a single button. He then developed a hypertext program called "ENQUIRE". Years later, domains came to life, a then-way to name computers. The Sir, afterwards, invented HTML, that was based on another language named SGML. On 1996, Hakon Lie and Bas Baros thought about a way to separate content from the style applied to it, such as the font, colors etc... With the approval of the W3C (World Wide Web consortium), CSS 1 was released, enabling people to use font properties, backgrounds and especially margins and paddings. CSS 2, CSS 2.1, and 3 then were approved, adding more properties to optimise the code better.