Home Pages and Hyperlinks

During 1993, the arrival of the Mosaic web browser signaled a dramatic improvement in the user-friendliness of the Internet. Many new web browsers have appeared since, with Netscape Navigator becoming the most popular. The World Wide Web is a standard for displaying and interlinking text, graphics, and even multimedia resources so that others all around the world can quickly access them, even if using disparate types of computers.

A web page is a hypertext world wide web document which usually uses integrated text and graphics. A web page appears much like a published magazine page with different sized and colored fonts and color pictures or images. It will often have words highlighted (often in blue) and underlined, or with representative images or icon buttons. You can point and click on the icons, images, or words to view the next web page or additional resources. These hypertext links to other pages, sites, or resources are called "hyperlinks."

A home page is the top level world wide web page for an individual, organization, or company. Typically the home page serves as the main "table of contents" for that web site. Icons or menu items on the home page allow you to point and click to access more web pages organized by the creator's subject interests, including additional images, audio segments, or video clips.

The White House now has a home page with color icons and video segments and still images, allowing a tour of the building. More and more organizations are creating WWW home pages containing increasingly sophisticated multimedia capabilities.

Activity:
1. Click HERE to see the Reach for the Sky Home Page. When done, click the Back button in your web browser to return to this page.