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WEB SITE An Introduction

This document provides an introduction and overview of key concepts related to websites and the World Wide Web (WWW). It defines a website as a group of related web pages hosted on a server and accessible via the internet. Websites contain elements like text, images, videos and links to other sites. Links are created using hypertext markup language (HTML) which encodes the uniform resource locators (URLs) that browsers use to display and navigate between pages on the WWW in a graphical user interface (GUI) style. Search engines can be used to locate websites on the internet.

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WEB SITE An Introduction

This document provides an introduction and overview of key concepts related to websites and the World Wide Web (WWW). It defines a website as a group of related web pages hosted on a server and accessible via the internet. Websites contain elements like text, images, videos and links to other sites. Links are created using hypertext markup language (HTML) which encodes the uniform resource locators (URLs) that browsers use to display and navigate between pages on the WWW in a graphical user interface (GUI) style. Search engines can be used to locate websites on the internet.

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An Introduction

ANTHONY T. AVILES
What is a Web Site?
 group of related Web pages: a computer program
that runs a Web server that provides access to a group
of related Web pages
 in computer science, file of information located on a
server connected to the WWW.
...WWW?
 World Wide Web or W3
 is a set of protocols and software that allows the global
computer network to display multimedia documents.
 a system for accessing, manipulating, and
downloading a very large set of hypertext-linked
documents and other files located on computers
connected through the Internet
 Internet, information superhighway
What are the essential elements of
a web site?
 text, photographs, illustrations, video, music, or
computer programs
 Hypertext - links to other sites, highlighted or colored
text that the user can click on with their mouse,
instructing their computer to jump to the new site.
...URL?
 Uniform Resource Locator
 specific address of a web site
 These addresses end in extensions that indicate the
type of organization sponsoring the web site, for
example, .gov for government agencies, .edu for
academic institutions, and .com for commercial
enterprises.
...browser?
 special software program wherein user’s computer
must be connected to the Internet to retrieve and read
information from a web site.
 Examples of browsers include Navigator from the
Netscape Communications Corporation and Explorer
from the Microsoft Corporation.
 Other examples?....
HTML?
 Hypertext Markup Language
 special language that encodes the links with the
correct URL
 The content presented on a web site usually contains
hypertext and icons, pictures that also serve as links to
other sites. By clicking on the hypertext or icons with
their mouse, users instruct their browser program to
connect to the web site specified by the URL contained
in the hypertext link.
 These links are embedded in the web site through the
use of HTML.
...GUI?
 Web sites generally offer an appearance that resembles
the graphical user interfaces (GUI) of Microsoft’s
Windows operating system, Apple’s Macintosh
operating system, and other graphics based operating
systems. They may include scroll bars, menus,
buttons, icons, and toolbars, all of which can be
activated by a mouse or other input device.
...Search Engines?
 To find a web site, a user can consult an Internet
reference guide or directory, or use one of the many
freely available search engines, such as WebCrawler
from America Online Incorporated. These engines are
search and retrieval programs, of varying
sophistication, that ask the user to fill out a form
before executing a search of the WWW for the
requested information. The user can also create a list
of the URLs of frequently visited web sites. Such a list
helps a user recall a URL and easily access the desired
web site. Web sites are easily modified and updated, so
the content of many sites changes frequently.

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