© 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 1 The World Wide Web The World Wide Web
© 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 2 The Web The Web Descendant of ARPAnet Subset of Internet Created in 1989 –Tim Berners-Lee –CERN Particle Physics Laboratory, Switzerland
© 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 3 A Very Big Client/Server Net A Very Big Client/Server Net Clients (browsers) –Netscape Navigator –Microsoft Internet Explorer –Microsoft WebTV Servers –Internet Service Provider (ISP) –Gateways –HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) –File Transfer Protocol (FTP) –UNIX and Microsoft Windows NT
© 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 4 Key Players Key Players Standards –World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Domain Names –InterNIC, a division of Network Solutions –Authorized by the National Science Foundation Gatekeepers –Netscape & Microsoft –AOL, CompuServe, Yahoo, et.al. Search Engines
© 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 5 Bandwidth Bandwidth Dial-up telecommunications Dedicated telecommunications Corporate Intranet Cable-modem
© 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 6 Universal Languages Universal Languages Cross-platform HTML - Hypertext Markup Language DHTML - Dynamic HTML JavaScript
© 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 7 What is a Web Site? What is a Web Site? Multi-level hierarchy Non-linear document Home Page ProductsServicesDealers Audio Video Home Theatre Consulting & Training Best Buy Circuit City
© 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 8 Web Designers Web Designers Information Designer –favors content and navigation –clean and user friendly Artist –favors visual –creative, challenging imagery Graphic Designer –type design –professional layout
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