What Is A Web Page
What Is A Web Page?
A web page is the electronic container space that holds some information and is made available to the web surfer on the World Wide Web via a web browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer, for example. This information in electronic form, with all the description on a topic, is usually written in hypertext form in HTML or XHTML language which lets you access any other web page containing some specific information content via hyperlinks placed on the web page.
These hyperlinks are also called web links or references. Therefore, the web page that resides physically on a remote web server inside a website is downloaded to the web surfer’s computer screen via the internet on specific request, which is done chiefly through a web link.
Depending on the web technology and the specific permissions or conditions used, the web server can either deny or allow access to the web surfer’s request to view it by downloading it on his computer. These web pages can include graphics and images, or contain some multimedia files and other types of interactive elements that can be static or dynamic in nature.
What Is A URL Of A Web Page?
Usually a web page has one or more URLs (Universal Resource Locator), a permanent link that allows deep linking, and sometimes has only a temporary URL that refers to an area cache. This is for instance the case when a page is the result of a zoom or movement for a map or a page may result due to some action. A page like this, like a page with a form filled, it could not be accurately called a web page, as it is not the web but created by something that is on the web.
Graphics
The file format of the graphics on a web page is usually JPEG for photographs and GIF or PNG for other images (such as diagrams, drawings, charts, etc.). The last two formats can be used for photos but they are not convenient for the purpose such as JPEG, which is a form of loss of information, while GIF and PNG are not. GIF is used for animations, GIF and PNG images with transparent pixels, PNG for images with partially transparent pixels (even if Internet Explorer 6 does not support the transparency of the PNG format).
All these belong to raster graphics formats. The most common ways to use vector graphics in web pages are three:
* SVG using the modern (not yet supported by most browsers);
* Inserting PDF files, viewable with a plug-in browser or a separate program;
* Inserting Flash files, which allows the animation of elements and using music and sound effects.
For example, to create a map, it may be a combination of layers to vector graphics and text, possibly with a level of raster graphics. This provides better results compared to zoom in a GIF or PNG (JPEG should lead to worse results due to artifacts of compression).
Displaying A Web Page
Since most web pages consist of text, they can easily be viewed in any web-related application that is designed to read text documents. However, to view a specific web page in the real sense, we need to use a type of software called user agent, or even better, a web browser, which is a type of special software designed to download and display the web pages. There are many different types of web browsers that are available with different features using a large number of platforms like the Windows or Mac platforms.
Create A Web Page
To create a website, you can use a generic text editor like the simple Notepad utility, or can use an HTML editor to design it, and then can use an FTP program like the AceFTP to upload the web page to the remote web server. Of course, you can use your web browser to make the web page’s submission to the remote web server, but it is not advisable.
You can use a ready-made web template. Web templates are ready-made HTML pages that can be used directly without needing you to actually design or write the code. Such web templates require you to only include only the title or content, and then it is ready to upload to the web server. As you can see, these models are very flexible and completely reusable.
Standards For Web Pages
From the technological point of view, the various unique aspects of a web page are made using the following standard:
* HTML, which is the description programming language of Web documents;
* XHTML, which is a next-generation advanced version of the HTML. XHTML is based on XML technology;
* Style sheets (CSS, also called the cascading style sheets), are used to manually control the graphical presentation of web pages on different types of devices (by composing and fine-tuning the placement and applying any special conditions to the text, graphics, printing, etc.).
Saving A Web Page
When you save a local copy of a web page, web browser usually allows the choice between:
* Save the text without any formatting or images without keeping the links and their destination;
* Save the HTML file without changes, but without pictures (save the source code);
* Save the HTML file by changing the relative links absolute, without images;
* Also save images and correcting references to them, both when you create a separate folder (IE, Mozilla), or is the same one used by the HTML (Opera);
Internet Explorer can also save the page with images in a single MHT file, similar to Apple’s Safari, which allows the same operation by saving the page (animations and applets) in a Web archive.
The most common web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7, also allow you to save or print the web page currently displayed and optionally “printed” on a file that can later be viewed or printed.
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