• Website, page, URL
• Hyperlink (internal, external) relative and absolute addressing
• Navigation
• Web browsers and search engines
• Good design to aid navigation, usability and accessibility

• Website 

• a website is a series of web pages linked together, bbc.co.uk has thousands of linked pages
• Page – A single page written in html on the internet, normally forms a website when linked with other pages
• URL – Uniform Resource Locator
  • http://www1.skysports.com/football/

• Hyperlinks

  • Internal – links to pages on the same site
  • External – links to a completely different website.
• relative addressing – code to link to weather would be
  • <a href=”/weather” >weather</a>
  • Benefit – less coding, link will still work if the domain name changes
• absolute addressing – code to link to weather would be
  • <a href=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather” >Weather</a>
  • Benefit – easier to follow the code as it shows the whole address.

• Navigation

  • back – Return to previous page
  • forward – Go to page last visited before you pressed back
  • home – return to user defined start page
• Web browsers – software allowing web pages to be viewed.
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • IE
• search engines – provide a list of links when a user types a search.
  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • Bing
• Good design to aid navigation – links clearly marked, consistent style
• Usability – Video clips, forums
• Accessibility – large text available, alt tags on pictures

Testing Websites

• Check navigation
• Checks all hyperlinks/hotspots
• Ensure graphics are not pixelated
• Ensure audio clips run
• Check JavaScript issues
• Check compatibility with browsers