PST SC015 Chapter 3 Internet Technology (II) 2017/2018
- 1. Chapter Three
3.2 The Internet
3.2.2 World Wide Web
3.2.2.1 Web Browser
At the end of this topic, students
should be able to:
a. Explain the purpose of Web
browser
b. List examples of Web browser
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- 2. The World Wide Web
• The World Wide Web, or Web, consists of a
worldwide collection of electronic documents (Web
pages)
• A Web site is a collection of related Web pages and
associated items, such as documents and pictures
which stored on web server.
• A Web server is a computer that delivers requested
Web pages to your computer
• Web 2.0 refers to Web sites that provide a means for
users to share, modify, provide information(social
network web site, wikis)
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- 3. Web Page
• Web page is an electronic document on the Web, which
can contain text, graphics, animation, audio, and video
and often has built-in connections to other documents,
graphics, Web pages, or Web sites
• Some Web pages are static (fixed); others are dynamic
(changing).
• Visitors to a static Web page all see the same content.
With a dynamic Web page, by contrast, visitors can
customize some or all of the viewed content such as
desired stock quotes, weather for a region, or ticket
availability for flights.
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- 4. Web Browser
• A Web browser, or browser, is application
software that allows users to access Web pages
and Web 2.0 programs
• Most current browsers support tabbed browsing.
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Internet
Explorer
Firefox Opera
Safari
Google
Chrome
- 6. Home Page
• A home page is the first
page that a Web site
displays
• Web pages provide links to
other related Web pages
– Surfing the Web
• Downloading is the process
of receiving information
such as a web page from a
web server on the Internet
• Uploading is the process of
transferring documents,
graphics and other objects
from a computer to a
server on the Internet. 6
• Some Web pages are
designed specifically for
micro browsers
- 7. Chapter Three
3.2 The Internet
3.2.2 World Wide Web
3.2.2.2 Web Address
At the end of this topic, students
should be able to:
- Identify the components of Web
address
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- 8. Web Address
• A Web page has a unique address called a uniform
Resource Locator (URL) or Web address
• For example, the home page for the KMPk Web site has
http://www.kmpk.matrik.edu.my as its Web address. A
Web browser retrieves a Web page using its Web
address.
• A Web address consists of a protocol, host name,
domain name, path and web page name or file name.
Web page addresses begin with http:// or https://.
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- 10. http://
• The http, which stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is a set of rules
that defines how pages transfer on the Internet.
https://
• Protocol for secured web pages
Other types of protocol
• ftp://
– FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is an Internet standard that permits file
uploading and downloading with other computers on the Internet.
• SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) used by mail server
– is a communications protocol used by some outgoing mail servers.
• POP 3(Post Office Protocol ) used by mail clients
– is a communications protocol used by some incoming mail servers.
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- 11. Chapter Three
3.2 The Internet
3.2.2 World Wide Web
3.2.2.3 Web Page Navigation
At the end of this topic, students
should be able to:
- Identify different ways of
navigation
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- 12. • The home page usually contains links to other
documents, Web pages, or Web sites.
• A link, short for hyperlink, is a built-in connection
to another related Web page or part of a Web
page.
• Most Web pages contain hypertext or
hypermedia links.
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Navigating Web Pages
- 13. • Hypertext refers to links in text-based documents.
• Hypermedia combines text-based links with graphic,
audio, and video links.
• Links allow you to obtain information in a nonlinear
way. That is, instead of accessing topics in a specified
order, you move directly to a topic of interest.
• Branching from one related topic to another in a
nonlinear fashion is what makes links so powerful.
•Surfing the web - The activity of using links to explore
the web
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Hypertext and Hypermedia
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3.2 The Internet
3.2.2 World Wide Web
3.2.2.4 Web Searching
At the end of this topic, students
should be able to:
- Explain two types of search tools
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- 16. Web Searching
• Two types of search tools are search engines and
subject directories
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Search
engine
A software use to find
websites, web pages,
images, videos, news,
maps and other
information related to
a specific topic
Subject
directory
Classifies Web
pages in an
organized set of
categories such as
sports or shopping
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Search Engine (Keyword search)
• Search engines require that you enter a word or phrase,
called search text or search query, that describes the
item you want to find.
• Each word in the search text is known as a keyword.
• Search engines often respond with thousands of results,
whose content varies depending on the type of information
you are seeking.
• A search engine is helpful in locating items such as:
Images Videos Audio News
Maps
People or
Businesses
Blogs
- 20. • Some Web browsers contain an Instant Search
box to eliminate the steps of displaying the search
engine’s Web page prior to entering the search
text
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Subject Directory (Directory search)
• A subject directory provides categorized lists of links
arranged by subject.
• Using this search tool, you locate a particular topic by
clicking links through different levels, moving from the
general to the specific
• Disadvantage with a subject directory is that users have
difficulty deciding which categories to choose as they work
through the menus of links presented