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Unit 1: Internet Fundamentals




              The World Wide Web that has become de facto standards for any professional belonging  Notes
               to any discipline finds its extensive use and utility in providing  information  stored  in
               computer system attached to the Internet or www.
              Different web designing techniques are used to make the information in a presentable
               form to the users. Some of the web designing techniques such as HTML has become a
               standard for web pages.
              In addition to the above, In HTML webpage design, the limited use of colors often makes
               the appearance of the colors more powerful.
              It is also possible to add an image or a plain color as background with the  help of its
               specifications in the <body> tag. Form also gives navigability to a website.

              Forms are objects that enable to enter information in the form of text boxes, drop-down
               menus or radio buttons. Front Page provided by Microsoft, however, provides an excellent
               tool for designing WebPages with very minimal knowledge of HTML has been replaced
               by more advanced tools.
              FrontPage enables to work in a WYSI–A–WYG (What You See Is –Almost– What You Get)
               environment that facilitates a great deal like the Microsoft word processing application,
               Word.

              Web browser is software to run the hypertext transmission protocols to retrieve a webpage
               from its destination.

              The browser program residing in the end user computer facilitates the advantages of text
               formatting, hypertext links, images, sounds, motion, and other features.
              Internet Explorer and Netscape are some of the widely used browsers. Browsers have sub
               programs called plug-ins to handle the documents you find on the Web.
              It may also other plug-ins stored elsewhere in your computer.
              Search engines  with different approaches provide an excellent  method of  searching
               WebPages on www in minimal possible time. Contribution of search engines is enormous
               to the growth of www and Internet.

          1.14 Keywords

          Frames: It is for displaying more than one HTML document in the same browser window or to
          divide the screen into separate windows.
          Home Page: It provides a point of entry to a Website with help. It also contains all relevant links
          of that particular website.
          HTML: Hypertext Markup Language defines the rules for formatting a web page so that a web
          browser displays the page properly.
          Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP): Hypertext Transfer Protocols are the rules that enable the
          transmission of web documents from one computer to another via the Internet.

          Hypertext: It defines the documents containing embedded links (hyperlinks) to other documents
          or other parts of the same document.
          Internet: It means a network infrastructure that is built on certain standards, which are followed
          by all participants to connect to each other.
          Internet Protocol (IP): It defines how the flow of information is organized.
          Search Engines: They are software that enables searching of the content available on Internet.



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