Using the Web for Assignments
3. Web Pages and Web Sites
URL - Uniform Resource Locator is the unique address of any web document. The URL,next to the address button at the top of the screen, is <www/fscwv.edu/>
LINK - The URL imbedded in another document, so that if you click on the highlighted text or button referring to the link, you retrieve the outside URL. Welcome, Administration, and Admissions in menu are links
Anatomy of A URL
| Type of file - could say ftp:// or telnet:// | Domain name - the computer file is located on and its location on the Internet | Path or directory on the computer to this file | Name of file, and its file extensions. Usually ending in .html or .htm |
| http:// | www.fscwv.edu | admin/ | quickfacts.html |
| http:// | www.fscwv.edu | admin/ | visitup_hp.html |
DOMAIN - Hierarchical scheme for indicating the location of a web-page from the network. In the US common domains are:
.edu (education)
.gov (government agency)
.net (network related)
.com (commercial)
.org (nonprofit and research organizations)
( This list is not exhaustive.)
Web PAGE or Web SITE
The term "site" is often used to mean "web page", but there is supposed to be a difference. A page is a single entity, one URL, one file that you might find on the Web. A site, properly speaking, is a location or gathering or center for a bunch of related pages linked to and from that site.
For example, the web site for Fairmont State College <www.fscwv.edu> is the top-level page. All of the web pages associated with it branch out from there.
PARTS OF A WEB PAGE
There are several types of web pages:
Advocacy web pages
Business / Marketing web pages
News web pages
Personal web pages
Informational web pages
ALL HAVE TO BE EVALUATED
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