How the World Wide Web Works
Information on the World Wide Web is presented in pages. A Web page is like a page in a book, made up of text and pictures (also called graphics). A Web page differs from a book page, however, in that it can include other elements, such as audio and video, and links to other Web pages.
Links are easy to use. Just position your cursor over a link and notice how the cursor changes shape from the normal arrow to a pointing hand. When the cursor is over the link, click your mouse button; your Web browser automatically takes you to the linked page.
A collection of Web pages is called a Web site. The main page at a Web site is called a home page, and the formal address of a Web page is called a URL (which stands for Uniform Resource Locator). For example, the URL for the home page of the Netscape Netcenter site is home.netscape.com.
