3 Web page and website

The documents to be displayed in a browser are web pages and they belong to a unity called a website.

Let's study the site of the New York Public Library more closely. We already know that the home page of NYPL is achievable with the string

nypl.org

We can start with it.

1     Start IE6.

2     Type the string 'nypl.org' on the Location Box and press Enter.

Note that because no particular page is specified the web server returns the home page of NYPL.

Here we see the so-called home page of the New York Public Library.

On the page there are hyperlinks to other pages. When the mouse pointer is moved onto a hyperlink, a line appears under the text of the link and/or the mouse pointer changes to a hand figure.

3     Drag the scrollbar downwards so that you see the bottom of the page.

4    Move the mouse pointer over the text 'Site Map' so you see that it's a link too as shown in Figure 3-4 below: 

5    Click the hyperlink 'Site Map'

This sitemap page consists of hyperlinks to pages related to the NYPL organization. All these pages together make up the site of NYPL.

On the Location bar you see that the URL of this page is

                      http://www.nypl.org/sitemap/index.html

The 'www.nypl.org' denotes the web server that hosts the site.

The folder 'sitemap' is in the root folder of the web server and it contains a file 'index.html'.  

6    By clicking a hyperlink on the page you'll get a document into your browser to be viewed.

Read through the following list and make sure that you understand
the terms typed in bold and italic:

●        A web page is a single electronic document to be displayed on your   screen.

●         Each page has a unique URL (Uniform Resource Locator), which   identifies its location.

●         Web pages can contain hyperlinks to other web pages.

●         A website or shortly a site is a collection of web pages relating to a   common theme.

●         One of the pages of a site is called the home page.

●         The home page is returned by the web server if you don't specify   another page in the URL.