World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a worldwide collection of electronic documents that use the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) standard. Users can access resources with the user of hypertext and a browser. It provides a user-friendly interface and high levels of interactivity.

A website is a group of electronic documents that present information on a particular topic. It consists of a series of web pages stored on servers. It’s able to display text, images, audio, video clips, and links to other pages. They are viewed when a computer makes a request for a particular page to be sent.

The web offers a vast range of topic on all aspects of society such as research, businesses, entertainment, software and personal interests. They are many types of websites:

• commercial—exist to sell their goods or services

• information—present factual data

• business—sites that provide support for an organisation such as technical support

• news—present information on the current events, sports, money, life and weather (see Figure 12.8)

• portal—provide Internet services such as search engines, email, news, sports and reference material

• personal—an individual’s web page and these sites contain information on every topic.