Web Browser and Web Address

The World Wide Web 

• Web Page : Each electronic documents on the Web which can contain text, graphics, animation, audio and video. There are two types which are static(fixed) and Dynamic( changing)

• Types of web page
• Static (fixed) : A fixed Web page where visitors all see the same content
• Dynamic (changing) : A Web page that allows visitors to customize some of all the viewed contents

• Web site : A collection of related web pages and associated items
• World Wide Web : Consists of a world wide collection of electronic documents (web pages)
• Web server : Is a computer that delivers requested Web pages to your computer
• Home Page : First page that a web site display

Web Browser

         Web browser : A Web browser, or browser, is application software that allows users to access and view Web pages.

•The purpose of a web browser is to bring information resources to the user.

•With an Internet connection established, you start a Web browser.

•The browser retrieves and displays a starting Web page.

Web pages provide links to other related Web pages

–Surfing the Web

•Downloading is the process of receiving information from a server on the internet

•Uploading process of transferring documents, graphics and other objects from a computer to a server on the Internet.Some Web pages are designed specifically for micro browsers (mobile devices)

Web  Address : A Web page has a unique address called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or Web address

•A Web browser retrieves a Web page using its web address.

•If you know the Web address of a Web page, you can type it in the Address bar at the top of the browser window.

Web address consists of :

Protocol

Domain name

Path

Web page name

•The last component of web address not only webpage name, it can be file name.

•Examples of web address

http://www.bankislam.biz/promote/index.htm

https://www.mybsn.com.my/mybsn/index.do

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/standards/RFC/rfc959.txt

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