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The World Wide Web (or simply Web) is the most popular service on the Internet. The development of the web was partly responsible for the rapid increase in the number of people who used the Internet in the late 1990s. The World Wide Web consists of millions of different sites, each of which contains information. Each site is identified by a unique address called a Uniform Resource Locator or URL.
The information at a site is stored in the form of pages which can contain text, pictures, sound and video. Because web pages can contain so many different types of information they can be designed to be attractive, informative and interesting.
The different pages at a site can be linked together so that the user can move easily between them. A hyperlink is placed on a page to create a link to another page. Clicking on a hyperlink will move you to the page that the link joins to. Links can be made between pages at the same site and pages at different sites.
To view the information at a web site you must use a browser package. Web pages are stored in a special code called Hypertext Markup Language or HTML. To create a page you must either :
1. | Write the HTML code
yourself. This can be very complicated. You need to know all of the valid codes that
can be used and type them exactly.
| 2. | Use a web design
package. The package will work like a desktop publisher.
You will be able to use a
range of tools to design the page on screen. The package will produce the HTML code
required for the page from your design.
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For must users the best option is to use a web design package. This will do most of the technical work for you. You simply design your page on the screen and the web design package creates the HTML code for the page you have made.
Whilst you are developing a web site you will probably store it on the hard disk of your computer. When it is complete you will need to upload it onto a web server so that other people can access it.
GCSE ICT Companion 04 - (C) P Meakin 2004