WEB BROWSER

• A web browser, or browser is application software that allows users to access and view Web pages. 

• The purpose of web browser is to bring information resources to the user.

• With an Internet connection established, you start a Web browser.

• The browser retrieves and displays a starting Web page.

WEB ADDRESS

• A Web page has a unique address called URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or Web address.
  
   1 - Protocol

           2 - Domain name

           3 - Path 

             

           4 - Web page name

• The last component of web address not only webpage name, it can be file name.

• Examples:

           http://www.bankislam.biz/promote/index.htm

           http://www.sukasuki.my/promotional/image1.jpeg

WEB PAGE NAVIGATION

• Surfing the web - The activity of using links to explore the web.
• A link - Can be text or an image.
• Text links - May be underlined and/or displayed in a colour different from other text on the page 

                           - The colour of the link will change once the link has visited.

• Types of web page navigation: 

Hypertext	Hypermedia
Links in text-based documents	Combines text-based links with graphic, audio and video links

Tab Browsing 

• Most current web browsers support tabbed browsing.
• Tabbed browsing allows you to open and view multiple Web page in a single Web browser window.

WEB SEARCHING

• A primary reason that people use the Web is to search for specific information, including text, pictures, music and video.

• The first step in successful searching is to identify the main idea or concept in the topic about which you are seeking information.

• Types of search tools :

Search engine (keyword search)	Subject directory (directory search)
Finds information related to a specific topic	Classifies Web pages in an organized set of categories.

Search Engine

• Helpful in locating information for which you do not know an exact Web address or are not seeking a particular Web site. 

• A search engine is helpful in locating items such as: Images, Videos, Audios, Publications, Maps, People or Businesses and Blogs.

• A program rhat searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.

• Requires the users to enter a word or phrase, called search text or search query.

• Each word of the search text s known as keyword.

• Result of the search is called hits and can be in form of : web pages, articles, images, audio,videos, etc.

What is a hit ?

- Any Web site name that is listed as the result of a search.