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A web page is a document that is displayed by your web browser
(e.g. Netscape or Internet Explorer). Most web pages include
some text, images and links to other web pages. A collection
of web pages about a topic are usually referred to as a web
site.
Basic web pages are sometimes referred to as HTML files since
web pages are usually coded in Hypertext Mark-up Language
(HTML). The content of an HTML file is text interspersed with
HTML tags that define the structure and formatting that the
web browser should use. You can either write the HTML
yourself, or use web page editing software (such as Dreamweaver)
to create the code for you.
When the web page is opened by the web browser, the HTML
code in the web page file is interpreted by the browser, and
the text in the web page file is displayed on the screen accordingly.
A web page file is stored in text format since the page content
that you write, and the HTML code are all just text characters
(i.e. letters, numbers and a few other symbols from the keyboard).
The web page filename should have a .htm or .html file extension
(filename.htm or filename.html) so that your
computer knows that is a web page.
You will usually create and edit web pages on your own computer,
and then publish them (copy them)
to the University's web server to make them available to people
browsing the web.
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