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Web Programming

Notes URL: It denotes Uniform Resource Locator. It is the address of a document on the World Wide
Web.
Web Browser: It is the client software used to explore and display web pages from a website.

Web Client: It refers to the computer and software used to access a website and web pages.
Web Page: It is a single hypertext document written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
and described in HTML basics. This normally contains the basic information and links to
navigate in the websites to which it belongs.
Web Server: It is the computer or server which provides a space for hosting a website. The web
client access web servers to retrieve information from a website.
Web Site: It is written in HTML and is a collection of linked Web pages on a Web server. Web
server is the machine where a website is located or hosted. It may be organization owned or
Internet Service Provider (ISP) owned.
World Wide Web (WWW): It is defined as a client-server information system using the Internet
to access computers containing millions of hypertext documents.
World Wide Web: It is an architectural framework of information system which offers the
exchange of documents via HTTP.

1.15 Review Questions

1. Compare and contrast between internet and www.
2. The Internet is an important tool for practically everybody. Analyze this statement and
discuss the evolution of internet.
3. A web browser is the software program used to access the World Wide Web that is the
graphical portion of the Internet. Give reasons

4. Explain why the server, in client/server technology, is typically a specialized database
server?
5. There are several search engines. Explain the different types of search engines with their
characteristics.
6. What is relevance of Front Page in designing web pages when most of the web pages are
designed in HTML?

7. How is the HTML document used for making a hyperlink? Explain with example.
8. Provide a link of another site and define links to send an email to different people. Take
relevant example.

9. Hypertext is a document containing words that connect to other document. Do you agree
with this statement? Why or why not? Give reasons
10. The resource can be a file, or data returned by another process. Discuss

Answers: Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. network technologies 2. nuclear event
3. Searchable 4. hyperlinks

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