Internet

What is Internet?
• Internet is a computer network that consists of a large number of inter-connected
computers.

• Fastest way to share information with the world community

World Wide Web
• WWW is the main service provided by the Internet
• WWW is formed with many web sites.
• A website is formed with many web pages

Sir Tim Berners Lee is considered as

the father of WWW.
Web Page
• A web site consists of several web
pages.

• In a web page can be included,

Written Notes
Pictures
Videos
Audios
Other Multimedia
Hyperlinks
Uniform Resource Locator
URL is the address used to
identify one resource among the
large number of resources in the
WWW.

Eg:
www.moe.gov.lk- Ministry of
Education Sri Lanka
www.srilankan.com- Srilankan
Airlines
www.dialog.lk- Dialog
Web browser
A web browser is a software application
for accessing Information on the world
wide web.

Ex:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Apple Safari
Microsoft Edge
Opera
Search Engine
Search Engines can be used to find
information,images,videos, etc. on the
web

Typing the keyword on the “Search” box

and pressing the search button ,display a
list of websites that are relevant to the
keywords.
Browsing History
Search Engines save recently
used web addresses.

These websites can be accessed

using the “History”
Bookmark/Favourite

A click on bookmark/favourite helps save

web addresses (URL) used often.

Saved websites as such can be seen as a list so

that the required website can be accessed.
Hyperlinks

A Hyperlink on web page links to another

section of the same page or a different web
pages
Forward/Backward
The forward /Backward button helps navigate
to a previous page or next page.
Tabs
A number of web pages can be
opened in a single window in a web
browser

When web pages are opened as tabs,

it is easy to select pages.
Creating a web page
Factors that should be considered in Developing a web page

• What is the goal of the website?

• Who uses it?
• Layout and structure of the site
• Design
 (Colours, letters, Font size)
 Clarity and readability of the content
• Navigation
 How does the user navigate to the website
 Navigation to the other websites
• Use of images
 Suits to user
 Compatible with content
 Minimal use of images
Main features necessary to create a website
TOOL Software

• Note pad
• Net beans
• Microsoft visual studio
• Word press
• Bluefish
• Eclipse
HTML TAGS