The Structure of the World Wide Web
THE STRUCTURE OF THE
WORLD WIDE WEB
Unit 1 CAPE Information Technology presentation Group members: Murroy Beverley & Nico Reid
WHAT IS THE WORLD WIDE WEB?
It is NOT the Internet!
Just an information system on the Internet.
Allows documents to be connected to each other by hypertext links.
Enables the user to search for information by moving from one document to another.
COMPONENTS IN THE STRUCTURE OF
THE WORLD WIDE WEB
Universal Resource Locator (URL)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Hypertext
Hyperlinks
Home Page
Website
Web page
Domain Name
Internet Protocol (IP) address
HYPERLINKS
An element in an electronic document that links to another place in the same document or to an entirely different document.
Are the most essential in the World Wide
Web.
You can access a place with one click of a button. HYPERTEXT
Is text which contains links to other texts.
HyperMedia is a term used for hypertext which is not constrained to be a text: it can include graphics, video and sound.
HOME PAGE
the introductory page of a website, typically serving as a table of contents for the site.
a web page set as the default or start-up page on a browser.
A home page is the initial page of a website, the ‘point of entry’ to all the information stored within.
Main page of a website which gives detailed information on its owner and provides links to its other parts.
Usually it is the first page seen by every visitor.
The home page contains the most relevant information on the website. WEB PAGE VERSUS WEB SITE
A website is a collection of linked documents and content associated with a single organization, person, group, or topic and usually sharing a server and a domain name. A web page is a single page of content on a website.
A web page is a computer file on the web which could provide text, pictures, or
WORLD WIDE WEB
Unit 1 CAPE Information Technology presentation Group members: Murroy Beverley & Nico Reid
WHAT IS THE WORLD WIDE WEB?
It is NOT the Internet!
Just an information system on the Internet.
Allows documents to be connected to each other by hypertext links.
Enables the user to search for information by moving from one document to another.
COMPONENTS IN THE STRUCTURE OF
THE WORLD WIDE WEB
Universal Resource Locator (URL)
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Hypertext
Hyperlinks
Home Page
Website
Web page
Domain Name
Internet Protocol (IP) address
HYPERLINKS
An element in an electronic document that links to another place in the same document or to an entirely different document.
Are the most essential in the World Wide
Web.
You can access a place with one click of a button. HYPERTEXT
Is text which contains links to other texts.
HyperMedia is a term used for hypertext which is not constrained to be a text: it can include graphics, video and sound.
HOME PAGE
the introductory page of a website, typically serving as a table of contents for the site.
a web page set as the default or start-up page on a browser.
A home page is the initial page of a website, the ‘point of entry’ to all the information stored within.
Main page of a website which gives detailed information on its owner and provides links to its other parts.
Usually it is the first page seen by every visitor.
The home page contains the most relevant information on the website. WEB PAGE VERSUS WEB SITE
A website is a collection of linked documents and content associated with a single organization, person, group, or topic and usually sharing a server and a domain name. A web page is a single page of content on a website.
A web page is a computer file on the web which could provide text, pictures, or