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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Web PagesQ: What is a URL?Q: What is HTML? Q: How do I access a website I've read about? Q: How difficult is it to learn HTML? Q: What is a domain name? Q: How can I find out if a domain name is available? Q: What do the .com, .edu, .gov at the end of a Web address mean? What is a URL? An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator, a URL is the address for a resource or site (usually a directory or file) on the World Wide Web and the convention that Web browsers use for locating files and other remote services. The first part of a URL tells you the type of resource (or method of access) at that address. The second part of a URL is typically the address of the computer where the data or service is located. Additional parts may specify the names of files, the port to connect to, or the text to search for in a database. Most of the URLs you'll be using start with http which stands for Hypertext Transport Protocol. HTTP is the method by which HTML files are transferred over the Web. For more information about URLs, read NCSA's Beginner's Guide to URLs. 
What is HTML? Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) can be described as a set of special codes referred to as "tags," that instruct a web browser how to display a hypertext document. Think of it is as a collection of styles (indicated by markup tags) that define the various components of a web page. All HTML documents are in plain text (ASCII) format, making them universally readable by different web browsers running on different computer platforms, such as PC and Macintosh.
How do I access a website I've read about? Enter the webpage address, also known as a URL, short for Uniform Resource Locator, in the window underneath the browser toolbar. In Microsoft Internet Explorer, the window is labeled Address. In Netscape Navagator it is labeled Location. It is generally not necessary to enter the "http://". Be sure to type in the URL exactly, or you'll get an error message. Now hit the Enter key and the website should start appearing in your browser!
How difficult is it to learn HTML? It is not very difficult and there is a gold mine of resources available on the Internet that will explain just about anything you want to know about HTML. A good place to start is with NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML and Sandia Lab's HTML Reference Manual. All you need to start is a text editor like Notepad and a web browser. Compose your HTML pages with your text editor and save it as a text-only file with a .htm extension. Then open the file in your browser to see what it looks like (keep in mind that an HTML document can appear different in different browsers.) You can go back to the original HTML files as often as you like to edit them.
What is a domain name? It is the unique name that identifies an internet site. The Internet is made up of hundreds of thousands of computers and networks, all with their own domain name or unique address. Domain names always have two or more parts separated by dots. A given server may have more than one domain name, but a given domain name points to only one server. For example, "whitehouse.gov" is the domain name belonging to the White House computer system. Once a system administrator registers a unique domain name, subaddresses can be assigned to the machines and people on the local network. So the President's email address is "president@whitehouse.gov," the Vice President's is "vice-president@whitehouse.gov," and so on. The machine that serves up the White House Web pages is called www.whitehouse.gov
How can I find out if a domain name is available? In the United States, domain names are assigned and indexed by the InterNIC project (a joint project of the National Science Foundation, AT&T, and Network Solutions, Inc.). Call us and we'll conduct a search to see if a particular domain name is available.
What do the .com, .edu, .gov at the end of a Web address mean? The domain name suffix is assigned based on the type of organization. For U.S. domains, the suffixes are as follows:
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