What Is a Website And How Do I Use it?

What Is a Website And How Do I Use it? — page 5 — LinkedIn Skype WHAT IS A WEBSITE AND HOW DOUSE IT ALL ABOUT THE WEB The World Wide Web is a vast collection of electronic documents known as web pages stored on millions of computers around the world Web pages can be accessed at any time of the day by anyone with a computer tablet computer such as an iPad or a smartphone SMALL BEGINNINGS The Web revolution began with a single web page first developed in 1989 by scientists in Switzerland The scientists used a special language they had invented called HTML Hypertext Markup Language The scientists main aim was to encourage people to use HTML to publish web pages on the Internet where other computer users around the world could access them NEVER ENDING GROWTH The idea caught on and now there are web pages and websites on just about any subject you can think of Whether you are interested in reading about a band such as Coldplay your favorite football player or the history of pizza making you can find what you are looking for on the World Wide

What Is a Website And How Do I Use it? — page 6 — THE WORLD WIDE WEB GRA MAY AWARDS GR GR AWARDS Zs O Web pages are packed with information You can find out almost anything on the Web from the latest releases by favorite bands such as Coldplay to news bulletins HOW BIG IS THE WEB No one knows exactly how many pages there are on the World Wide Web This is because there are many different ways of indexing or cataloging the Web Estimates from experts range from 1 69 billion pages to nearly 200 billion However all experts agree that the number of websites is increasing every

What Is a Website And How Do I Use it? — page 7 — LinkedIn WHAT IS A WEBSITE AND HOW DOUSE IT Skype WEB BASICs The World Wide Web may seem complicated but the way it works is actually very simple Here are some of the ways you can use an Internet enabled device to find and read pages on the Internet BROWSER BASICs At their most basic web pages are simple text files with added instructions written in HTML These instructions tell your device how the page is supposed to look To view them you need a software program called a web browser SERVER BASICs All web pages are stored on special computers called web servers When you load a website your browser retrieves the information directly from the web server I When you enter an address into your browser the browser makes a direct connection to the web server where the website you are looking for is stored N http w GC Io

What Is a Website And How Do I Use it? — page 8 — Skype THE WORLD WIDE WEB Blogger WEB STEP BY STEP Here is a step by step guide to using a web browser to access a website 1 Open a web browser Popular web browsers include Internet Explorer Safari Google Chrome and Firefox 2 Type in a URL uniform resource locator This is the website's address for example www friendfeed com This tells your computer where to look on the Web for the page you want to access 3 Making a connection Your computer will now connect to the web server storing the web page 4 Reading the HTML Once a connection has been made your web browser will read the HTML instructions These instructions known as tags tell your computer how to display the web page 5 Displaying the website Once it has read the HTML tags the website will appear in your web browser You will not see these tags as they are meant only as instructions for the

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