TUTORIAL FOR NEWCOMERS TO THE INTERNET
 
6 - WEB PAGE 

Basics  
More Basics  
1 - Scope of the Internet  
2 - Connecting  
3 - How ISPs Differ  
4 - Definitions   
5 - The Browser  
WORLD WIDE WEB  
6 - "Web Page"  
7 - Addresses (URLs)  
8 - Bookmarks 
9 - Known Address  
10 - Navigating   
11 -  Frames  
12 - The "Home" Page  
13 - Cruising  
14 - Searching  
15 - Saving Text  
16 - Saving Pictures  
17 - Security  
18 - Plugins  
E-Mail  
19 - Programs/Settings  
20 - E-mail Addresses  
21 - Using E-mail  
22 - Attachments  
23 - Listservs  
Other  
24 -Newsgroups  
25 -Netiquette
This is a Web page.  Technically, it's a single file (of any length) residing on a "Web server" somewhere.  It's formatted in a special way so that you can view it on your computer.   

A Web site is a group of inter-related Web pages, like the pages on this tutorial.  Each time you click on a "Next" link, you open another page or file in this Web site.   

Web pages use a tagging system to tell the browser software how to present the content to viewers -- what colors and layout to use, where to insert pictures, and so on.   

The specific tagging language used for Web pages is called the HyperText Markup Language (HTML).  Web pages are  transmitted over the Internet using a specific kind of handshaking called the HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP).   

You can view the tagged version of any page by clicking on your browser's View menu (in the menu bar at the top of the window)  and then by choosing Page Source or simply Source.  This causes a second window to be opened showing you what the browser sees to present this page to you.  (Click on the X at the view window's top right corner to close it.) 
  

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