HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language
Web pages can accommodate many kinds of content, such as text, graphics, forms, audio and video files. HTML files that produce web pages are just text documents. This use of text documents is why the web works so well, text is a universal language for computers. But web pages aren’t merely text documents, they contain text called html. This is a set of specific instructions that dictates how the page will look and behave in a web browser. We create the page in any text editor, this will be notepad on your netbook. Then we view the page in a browser, this will be chrome on your netbook. A web server connects to the internet, runs web server software and responds to requests from web browsers for web pages. A web page has a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) also known as an address, it looks like
http stands for hypertext transfer protocol. This defines how browsers should request web pages and how web servers respond to those requests.
The four parts of the address are:
Protocol: http
Domain: general web site
Path: specific folders
Filename: the file name of the specific web page.
Task:
Open a word document, call it ‘IT notes’. Put a heading ‘of ‘Web pages research’.
Answer the following questions about these 3 different web pages
1. The web page address is:
2. Identify the 4 parts of the web page : protocol, domain, path, filename
3. The web page is about…
4. The colours in the web page are:
5. The fonts are:
6. There are____ links and they go to pages about ________.
7. There are _______images. The images are pictures of _____________
8. There is ___________% white space. (ie blank, empty space)
9. This web page is special (different) because _____________
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