What+is+a+website?

To understand what is meant by a web site, we must first consider what is meant by a web page.

A web page is a simple text file that contains not only text, but also a set of HTML tags that describe how the text should be formatted when a browser displays it on the screen.

Here is some sample web page source (HTML) code:

The code produces the following web page when displayed in a browser:

A web page is simply a page made up of text and graphics, video and hyperlinks.

A web site is a collection of web pages linked together by hyperlinks. The first page which is arrived at when visiting a website is known as the home page.



Questions
1. What does HTML stand for 2. Find 2 examples of HTML code and explain what they do 3. What is meant by the term hperlink?

Task
Find a small web site online which has only a handful of pages. Draw a structure diagram of the site like the one above to show the different pages, and the links between each.