Research – Project Screen Based Communication 2

Yes it’s possible, understanding the Web. Its a wild and wacky world of possibilities.But I’m going to try!

The Web is simply a system of servers that supports hypertext and multimedia to access several protocols on a single interface. Almost every type of protocol is accessible on the web, these a set of rules that allow for inter machine communication on the Internet. In other words, a lot of technical jargon!

There are a few protocols you can experience on the Web:

• HTML (Which stands for Hypertext Markup Language)
• E-mail (Simple Mail Transport Protocol or SMTP)
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Transfers text or binary files between an FTP server and client, for example to download software.
  

The Web contains a complex virtual web of connections among a vast number of documents, images, sounds and videos. It gathers all the protocols together into a graphical system.

HTML

The operation of the Web relies primarily on hypertext as its means of information retrieval. It’s a document containing words that connect to other documents. Producing hypertext for the Web is accomplished by creating documents with hypertext markup language. Tags are placed within the text to accomplish document formatting, visual features such as font size, italics and bold, and links.

<p>This paragraph shows underlying HTML code.<strong>This sentence is rendered in bold text</strong></p>

HTML is a straightforward language for describing Web page contents. HTML markup has three types of components:

• Elements: Identify different parts of an HTML page by using tags.

• Attributes: Information about an instance of an element.

• Entities: Non-ASCII text characters, such as copyright symbols (©) and accented letters (É). Entities originate from the Standard Generic Markup Language, or SGML.

Elements are the building blocks of HTML. You use them to describe every piece of text on your page. Elements are made up of tags and the content within those tags. There are two main types of elements:

• Elements with content made up of a tag pair and whatever content sits between the opening and closing tags in the pair.

• Elements that insert something into the page, using a single tag (An Image).

This was a brief overview of what HTML is and how it’s used, there’s obviously a lot more of technical learning involved. But understanding the fundamentals is crucial to develop skills in html further.