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The software bells and whistles for the World Wide Web (WWW) didn’t actually surface until 1991. Scientists at the CERN research laboratory developed the “Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)” so that they could exchange information about their projects over their TCP/IP network.
Web page
A web page or webpage is a resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser. This information is usually in HTML or XHTML format, and may provide navigation to other web pages via hypertext links.
Web pages may be retrieved from a local computer or from a remote web server. The web server may restrict access only to a private network, e.g. a corporate intranet, or it may publish pages on the World Wide Web. Web pages are requested and served from web servers using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Web pages may consist of files of static text stored within the web server's file system (static web pages), or the web server may construct the (X)HTML for each web page when it is requested by a browser (dynamic web pages). Client-side scripting can make web pages more responsive to user input once in the client browser.
Creating Web pages
To transmit a Web page, a Web browser, Web server, and the Internet use the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. HTTP is not, however, used to display the Web page once it reaches the intended destination. To control how a Web page is displayed, another specification is used – Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Although HTML was the original and is still the most commonly used method for controlling the display of Web pages, two new forms of HTML have emerged that offer more power and flexibility in Web-page creation – dynamic HTML and eXtensible Markup Language.
The Web page is the fundamental element of the World Wide Web. If you understand what is involved in creating a Web page, you can communicate better with individuals who create Web pages, and you can create Web pages yourself if you are ever called upon to do so. A simple Web page can, for instance, be an effective tool in demonstrating an idea to fellow employees. And in some small businesses, you may be the employee who not only designs the product and creates the marketing campaign, but also design and creates the supporting Web pages.
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