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What is a URL?

What is a URL?. U niform R esource L ocator. Each page in a web site has a URL, you will see the URL appear when you log onto different pages. A URL is like a postal address or telephone number It is an address of where a page is stored on the world wide web

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What is a URL?

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  1. What is a URL?

  2. Uniform Resource Locator Each page in a web site has a URL, you will see the URL appear when you log onto different pages. A URL is like a postal address or telephone number It is an address of where a page is stored on the world wide web The URL of a web site can give a lot of information about a source

  3. http// www.disney.com/MickeyMouse/disney.html A URL looks something like this: How to get to this site Specific part of server that holds the document Name of web server Name of the document It’s the same as saying to Neil’s Mum who wants to find his maths report: Drive/ 123 Sesame Street/ Neil’s Room, Top of Desk/ Maths Report

  4. URL – Uniform Resource Locator http://www.gablehall.thurrock.sch.uk / index.htm Protocol How to display the page

  5. URL Hierarchy http://www.gablehall.thurrock.sch.uk / index.htm

  6. The Internet (Lots of computers all connected together over a large area) Your computer Server (web server) Your computer connects to a server ( a large computer which holds lots of different web pages) and the server sends back the required page

  7. The URL of a web site can give a lot of information about a source: If we look at one part of a URL, we can see that: www.honda.com COMPANY www.honda.co.uk UK COMPANY www.whitehouse.gov GOVERNMENT AGENCY www.greenpeace.org ORGANISATION (non-profit) www.sony.au AUSTRALIA

  8. Other Search Engines to look at: www.metacrawler.com www.yahoo.com www.excite.com www.altavista.com www.bing.com

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