Charmaine NormanCopyright What Is a Web Page Presented by Webpagemaker. Net Left click your mouse to view each frame, Web Page
Charmaine NormanCopyright What Is a Web Page It’s a electronic document on the Internet or World Wide Web (WWW). It may contain graphic, text, audio, animation, video, and links to other web pages, files and web sites.
Charmaine Norman Copyright A Web Site It’s a collection of related web pages that can be accessed electronically. A web server is a computer that delivers requested web pages to your computer’s browser.
Charmaine NormanCopyright HomePage A home page is a web page used as a starting point for a Web site on the Internet. – It’s a one page document that acts like a table of content or book cover for the Web site. – The Homepage provides information about the Web site’s purpose.
Charmaine NormanCopyright How to View a Web Page You will need a software program call a web browser on your computer. The Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape are the two most popular browsers in 2006, that are used.
Charmaine NormanCopyright Web Page Address Each web page has an unique address called uniform resource locator (URL) that’s the domain name of a web page or a Web site. Most web pages (URL) begins with ( hypertext transfer protocol, this is use to transfer between pages on the Internet.
Charmaine Norman Copyright Domain Names The most widely used Web Page domain names ends in a.com,.net,.org,.gov,.biz, and.info Commercial Commercial Internet Internet Organization Organization Government Government
Charmaine NormanCopyright Graphics Files Photographs, artwork and other images are scanned and are compressed to a reduce size for faster downloading to and from the web site. A JPEG (.jpg) joint photographic experts group, GIF (.gif) graphics interchange format, BMP (.bmp) bitmap, and PNG (.png) portable network graphics are some of the common graphics files used in a web page.
Charmaine NormanCopyright Animation and Sound Files Animation files is the appearance of motion created by displaying a series of still images in rapid sequence. Video files for Internet are formatted as AVI, MOV, MPEG, RM, and SWF. Sound files add audio to your web pages are formatted as WAV, MIDI,, RM (Streaming or none streaming), and MPEG (MP3) used for sound files on the Internet.
Charmaine NormanCopyright Developing Web Pages Combining graphic, text, animation, video, and sound files makes a web page look exciting. Java is another language use for developing multimedia.
Charmaine NormanCopyright HTML Language Web designers and web developers create and format web pages using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is a set of codes that define the placement and format of text, video, sound, and graphic on a web page. Tags tell how the text, video, sound, and other elements as graphic, links and animation should appear in a browser. HTML tags (Codes)- Primary tags examples :,,, and these are the basic building block of a Web Page Structure. Secondary tags Examples:,,,,, and etc… tells how the elements should appear and sound.
Charmaine NormanCopyright Web Page Publishing Web Page Publishing If you know HTML you may use a text editor to write a simple Web page.
Charmaine Norman Copyright Works Cited Shelly/Cashman/Vermaat/ Walker, “Shelly Cashman Series (Complete)®, Discovering Computers 2001, Chapter 7 pg.7.20, ; “The Internet,” Course Technology © 2000 Thomson Learning. Homepage is: