Project1

•Describe the Internet and its associated key terms

•Describe the World Wide Web and its associated key terms

•Identify the types and purposes of Web sites

•Discuss Web browsers and identify their purpose

•Define Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and the standards used for Web development

•Define Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (DHTML) and describe its relationship to HTML

•Define Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) and describe its relationship to HTML

•Describe tools used to create HTML documents

The internet:

•The Internet is a worldwide collection of computer networks that links together millions of computers used by businesses, the government, educational institutions, organizations, and individuals using modems, telephone lines, television cables, and other communications devices and media

•A network is a group of two or more computers that are connected together to share resources and information

•The Internet backbone is a collection of high-speed data lines that connect major computer systems located around the world

•An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a company that has a permanent connection to the Internet backbone .

•The World Wide Web, also called the Web, is the part of the Internet that supports multimedia and consists of a collection of linked documents

•Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a set of rules for exchanging text, graphics, sound, and other multimedia files

•Web pages are pages of information on the Web

•A Web site is a related collection of Web pages

•A home page is the first document users see when they access a Web site .

Web Browsers

•A Web browser, also called a browser, is a program that interprets and displays Web pages and enables you to view and interact with a Web page

–Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator

•A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the address of a document or other file accessible on the Internet

–http://www.scsite.com/html3e/index.htm

•A hyperlink, also called a link, is an element used to connect one Web page to another .

What Is Hypertext Markup Language?

•Web pages are created using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), which is the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web

•HTML uses a set of special instructions called tags or markup to define the structure and layout of a Web document and specify how the page is displayed in a browser

•HTML is platform independent, meaning you can create, or code, an HTML file on one type of computer and then use a browser on another type of computer to view that file as a Web page.

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