In some ways, the World Wide Web is like a big library on the Internet.
In some ways, the World Wide Web is like a big library on the Internet.
Web sites are the books in this library. Like books, they may contain many specific Web pages.
A home page is the starting point for a Web site, like the cover page or the table of contents of a book. From the home page, you can jump to other pages of the site.
Like books, Web pages contain text and images. Unlike books, they may also contain animations, motion picture clips, sounds. And these pages can be located on computers anywhere in the world.
Each Web page has a unique address called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). For example:
[D]The Web lets you jump or hyperlink from one Web page to others. Hyperlinks (also called simply "links") between Web pages are constructed using the page address contained in the URL.
A browser is a software program that you use to look at Web pages. You are using a browser right now to view this page.
There are different types or "brands" of Web browsers, but features are similar. We will cover basic operations of the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser in this lesson.