1. © 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 1 The World Wide Web The World Wide Web

2. © 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 2 The Web The Web Descendant of ARPAnet Subset of Internet Created in 1989 –Tim Berners-Lee –CERN Particle Physics Laboratory, Switzerland

3. © 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 3 A Very Big Client/Server Net A Very Big Client/Server Net Clients (browsers) –Netscape Navigator –Microsoft Internet Explorer –Microsoft WebTV Servers –Internet Service Provider (ISP) –Gateways –HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) –File Transfer Protocol (FTP) –UNIX and Microsoft Windows NT

4. © 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 4 Key Players Key Players Standards –World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Domain Names –InterNIC, a division of Network Solutions –Authorized by the National Science Foundation Gatekeepers –Netscape & Microsoft –AOL, CompuServe, Yahoo, et.al. Search Engines

5. © 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 5 Bandwidth Bandwidth Dial-up telecommunications Dedicated telecommunications Corporate Intranet Cable-modem

6. © 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 6 Universal Languages Universal Languages Cross-platform HTML - Hypertext Markup Language DHTML - Dynamic HTML JavaScript

7. © 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 7 What is a Web Site? What is a Web Site? Multi-level hierarchy Non-linear document Home Page ProductsServicesDealers Audio Video Home Theatre Consulting & Training Best Buy Circuit City

8. © 2000 – All Rights Reserved - Page 8 Web Designers Web Designers Information Designer –favors content and navigation –clean and user friendly Artist –favors visual –creative, challenging imagery Graphic Designer –type design –professional layout

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