How the WWW Works

A great resource for anything web related is the W3C web site. W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is the organization that creates the rules for the WWW. They have a series of well written tutorials for HTML as well as almost any other aspect of web development that you are interested in. Use the HTML tutorial provided on this site to answer the following questions.

1. What do you call the computer that stores web pages?

2. What is another name for your computer, the one that accesses the pages?

3. What program has the ability to read and display HTML coded pages?

4. What is the purpose of HTML tags? Give an example of an HTML tag.

5. What are the three most essential web standards?

6. What does HTML stand for and what is the function of HTML?

7. Complete the "mypage.html" example and show both the text file and web page to your instructor for teacher check. Be sure to save this file in your H: drive.

8. What are the three tags that every web page will contain?

9. I created a web page in notepad. What extension do I need to give the file when I save it?

10. I changed the code in my HTML document but when I open the web page it looks the same as it did before? What is wrong?

Show your work to your instructor for teacher check. Be sure you are saving all files in your home directory.