National 5 – Structures and links web based (Revision) – Coltness High School

Website – 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 – The address of the web page
- http://www1.skysports.com/football/
Hyperlinks
- Internal – links to pages on the same site
- External – links to a completely different website.
- relative addressing – a link to a page from the the page you are on, so a link to weather page in the same folder would be
- <a href=”weather.html” >weather</a>
  - Benefit – less coding, link will still work if the domain name changes
- absolute addressing – a link to a page that includes where the page is located on a site, so a link to the weather page from any page would be
- <a href=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather.html” >Weather</a>
  - Benefit – easier to follow the code as it shows the whole address.
Navigation – back, forward, home.
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