1. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Introduction to World Wide Web Terms Writing for the Web

2. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Contents Definition of terms related to the Internet and Web pages.

3. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Hypertext Text that contains links so you can jump from topic to topic

4. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Hypermedia Combination of Graphics Sound Video Text

5. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e World Wide Web New system for publishing and distributing information Collection of resources & services on Internet Collection of hypertext documents

6. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e The Internet World-wide network of computers

7. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Web Server Computer with special software to host Web pages and Web applications.

8. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Browser Software that allows you to view WWW pages. Internet Explorer Netscape

9. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Browser Client gets information from a server. When you point your browser at a WWW document, the browser talks to the server to get the document.

10. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e How a Browser Works Browser interprets user’s selection and makes request from appropriate server. Server sends requested files to browser to be interpreted. Server accepts & processes request from browser. User sees requested files.

11. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e URL Uniform Resource Locator Unique address for each file on the Web.

12. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e URL Displayed in the upper part of the Web browser window. Displayed in bottom left corner when you place your cursor over a link.

13. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Parts of a URL Protocol: how document accessed Host name: system on Internet where information is stored Directory: location of file on host File name: HTML file for Web page

14. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Protocol Set of conventions (a computer dialect) that determines how data will be exchanged between programs. Way in which document is accessed. Type of program browser will use to get file Examples: http, ftp, gopher http://mysystem.com/docs/index.html

15. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Internet Services http FTP Gopher Usenet WAIS Telnet e-mail The service tells the client browser how to contact the server for requested data.

16. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol Protocol that allows hypertext documents be transferred quickly over the Net between Web browsers and servers.

17. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e FTP File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Archives of files Log into remote computer Example: ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/

18. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Sample FTP Site

19. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Gopher Menu driven directories of files and information. Increasingly uncommon. Developed at U. Minnesota.

20. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Sample Gopher Site

21. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Telnet Log on remotely to another computer. When a telnet address is selected, your Web browser will launch a Telnet external program and connect to the specified site for a Telnet session.

22. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Sample Telnet Session

23. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e WAIS Wide Area Indexed Server A site to search a collection of subject oriented documents by keywords. Examples: Yahoo, Lycos

24. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Host Name System on Internet on which information is stored. May include a port number. http://mysystem.com/docs/index.html

25. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Domain Name A name that identifies one or more IP addresses. Example: the domain name microsoft.com represents about a dozen IP addresses. For example, in the URL

26. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e TLD (Top Level Domain) Suffix that indicates which top level domain (TLD) domain name belongs to. http://mysystem.com/docs/index.html

27. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Examples.com: commercial.edu: education.org: nonprofit organization.net: network service provider/administration.mil: military.gov: government

28. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Sample Country Codes au: Australia ca: Canada de: Germany jp: Japan se: Sweden uk: United Kingdom

29. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e New Extensions.biz: small business Web sites..info: resource site.us: American Web sites.cc: unrestricted; may be registered by anyone from any country..bz: unrestricted; may be registered by anyone from any country..tv: rich content multimedia Web sites, commonly used within the entertainment or media industry.

30. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e DNS Domain Name System Internet is based on IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, not domain names. Every Web server requires a DNS server to translate domain names into IP addresses.

31. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Directory Location of information on host. http://mysystem.com/docs/index.html

32. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Filename A file on your local computer system (hard drive, floppy, local file server). http://mysystem.com/docs/index.html

33. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e URL Format For most Web servers spelling is important. File names on UNIX computers are case sensitive.

34. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e HTML HyperText Markup Language Uses markup tags to tell the Web browser how to display the text.

35. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Web Page File viewed in a browser. One document with.htm or.html extension.

36. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Components of a Web Page Text (ASCII, plain text) Filenames of inline images URLs or filenames for links HTML tags and attributes

37. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Home Page “Page” on the Web. The first document people see when they get to your Web site. Web page that loads when you start your browser.

38. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e Web Site Set of related/linked documents.

39. The Internet Writer’s Handbook 2/e