Module2A: Accessing and Viewing Web Pages Flashcards
What are the two most common types of addresses?
Email and Web Addresses
What is the address of a web-page called?
A URL
What are URL’s made up of?
Several distinct components
- Protocol
- Domain Name
- Subdomain
- Path
Define Protocol
A protocol tells the web server and browser the type of information it is delivering and how it should be delivered. the protocol is also referred to as the scheme
Define Domain Name
It’s the Unique name that identfies a particular website. It is also the most important of a URL as it determines the correct web server for the website
Define Subdomain
it’s a portion or subset of a domain name. The most common is www; as in www.google.ca it also can be almost anything such as mail.google.com or calendar.google.com
Define Path
The path identifies the specific page the web server will send to your browser. The path can also end in a filename such as index.html
What is DNS?
DNS is Domain name system and allows web users to type in a url to access a webpage instead of a corresponding numeric IP Address
What are the components of a Domain name
the three components of a domain name are:
- Subdomain
- Domain Name
- TLD
What is TLD
it’s top-level domain which generally indicates the type of organizations the website belongs to or the country associated with the domain name.
What are the common Top Level Domains and there descriptions
- .com - Commercial organizations, corporations
- .edu - Educational institutions
- .net - Network sites
- .org - Not-for-profit and other similar types of organizations
- .gov - U.S. governmental agencies
- .mil - U.S. military organizations
- .museum - Museums
- .travel - Travel sites
- .careers - Employment opportunities
- .ca - Canada
- .uk - United Kingdom
- .de - Germany
- .jp - Japan
- .se - Sweden
- .au - Australia
Define Redirect
it’s when the url may be different from what you entered, if the Actual URL has changed and the original URL (The one you type) remains active and serves as a link to a new web page.
What are the keyboard shortcuts to navigate within a webpage
- Page up to Move up
- Page Down to Move Down
- Left or Right Arrow to move left or right
- Tab to move through links and fields
What are the Navigation Buttons?
- Back
- Forward
- Reload
- Stop
What do the Back and Forward Buttons Do?
Back button goes back one page at a time. You can go back until you reach the first page you visited
Foward button reverses the action of the Back Command.
How do you access Back and Forward History
To access you click and hold or right click either of the buttons and choose the webpage you want to go to from the list
What does the Reload Button do?
Basically the computer contacts the web server that stores the page and gets the most up to date version of that page.
What does the stop button do?
it’s used to stop whatever the browser is doing, such as waiting for a webpage to appear and you don’t want to wait anymore.
it only appears on the toolbar while a webpage is loading, after that it has loaded the stop button is replaced with the reload.
How can New Tabs be opened?
with the New Tab button
Whats another way to open a Tab?
By right clicking a link and choosing open link in new tab
How many tabs can be viewed?
The contents of only one tab can be visible on your screen at any one time. To display the contents of another tab, simply click on that tab.
