WWW Guide to Web Construction - World Wide Web

WWW Guide - World Wide Web

WWW - World Wide Web Alliance WWW is often referred to as a network. The web is a computer network around the world. Computers communicate in standard languages on the Web. The World Wide Web Alliance (W3C) has developed Web standards

What is WWW?

• WWW stands for World Wide Web (World Wide Web).
• The World Wide Web is often referred to as the Network
• A network is a computer network around the world
• All computers in the network can communicate with each other
• All computers use HTTP's communication standards

How does the World Wide Web work?

• The file in which the information is stored is called a Web page
• Web pages are stored on the Web server.
• Computers that read Web pages are called Web clients
• A Web client's program for viewing Web pages is called a Web browser
• The browsers are Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox.

How does my browser get web pages?

• A browser requests web page data from a server
• Standard HTTP requests contain a web address
• Web address instance: http://www.w3cschool.cn

How does the browser display the page?

• All pages contain instructions on how to display them
• The browser displays the page by reading these instructions.
• The most common display instructions are called HTML tags
• The labels for paragraphs in HTML are:
• In HTML, a paragraph is defined as follows: "This is a paragraph." </p>

Who's doing Web standards?

• Web standards are not what Google or Microsoft are doing
• The organization that rules the Web is W3C
• W3C represents the World Wide Web Alliance
• Web standard specifications developed by W3C.
• The most important Web standards are HTML, CSS, and XML