Where do web sites begin and end?
The web is a system that uses the Internet to transport information. It has its own language, which you must be familiar with before you can determine whether or not to use a web site. Do you know these terms?
Web Page
Web pages are the files that make up the web. Currently, there are billions of web pages on every imaginable topic. For example, the web page that you are reading, Evaluating Web Sites, is a web page.
Web Site
A web site a collection of web pages on a particular subject that includes a main page called a home page. For example, the web page Evaluating Web Sites resides on the Texas A&M University-Commerce Libraries' web site. The home page for the Texas A&M University-Commerce Libraries is located at http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/library/.
URL
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a specific location on the web. All web pages are assigned a URL. Generally, the web pages that make up a particular web site will have a similar URL. For example, the URL for the page Evaluating Web Sites is http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/library/services/research/evaluate/. The URL for the Texas A&M University-Commerce Libraries home page is http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/library/. Although these pages have different URLs, they are both part of the same web site. How do you know? The beginning of both URLs http://www.tamu-commerce.edu is the same.
Link
A link is text or an image on a web page that you can click on to jump to another web page. A web page may contain links to pages on the same web site. These are known as internal links. A web page may also contain links to pages on another web site. These are known as external links. For example, there are hundreds of web pages that make up the IRS web site, including the web page IRS Forms and Publications http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html.
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