Components of Internet

Website

A web site is a collection of related Web pages with a common Web address. An analogy would be to a house with different rooms. It can also be useful to view a web site as a "virtual city" where the domain name is the center square, the folders in URL's are streets, and the pages are buildings.

Some buildings are closer to the centre square than others, and some are connected to other buildings elsewhere in the city by side streets, tunnels, and alleyways -- i.e., links.

Information on the Web is displayed in pages (files). The New York Times and CBS are examples of two organizations that have web sites.

The New York Times web site, for example, would include the newspaper itself, archived articles from the newspaper and other related information about the company and its many products.

Most pages on the web are written in a standard markup language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and JavaScript. These languages describes how information should be displayed regardless of the browser used or the type of computer.

Pages also include hypertext links which allow users to jump to other related information. Hypertext is usually underlined and in a different color (but not always) and can include individual words, sentences, or even graphics