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What are Web pages?
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You probably have seen Web pages using a Web browser. See the following sample Web page to examine the structure of a general Web page.

This is a sample Web page:
Homepage Builder Web page
URL
URL is the address of a Web page.

title
To highlight the title, sometimes images are used.

link
If you click a link, another page appears.

image
Web pages can contain GIF images or JPEG images.

image with a link
If you click an image with a link, another page appears.

table
Tables are often used for page layout.


Vocabulary Vocabulary Web browser
An application for viewing Web pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer are well-known Web browsers.

URL
An address of a Web page. It usually begins with http://www.... Because each URL is unique, you can access the target URL from anywhere in the world.

link
A function to jump. If you click text or an image to which a link is set, you jump to another page or another place in the same page.



A Web page is an HTML file

If you use Netscape Navigator, select Document source from the View menu. If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, select Source from the View menu. HTML language such as the following sample appears.

If you open the preceding Web page with a text editor instead of a Web browser, you see the following HTML source file:
Source
<IMG...>
Indicates an image.

<P> and </P>
Indicate a paragraph. </P> means the end of paragraph.


"To create a Web page" is actually "to prepare a file written in HTML." Because HTML is a computer language that consists of many tags, we are not familiar with HTML in our everyday lives.

Now we come to TopPage. Without any knowledge of HTML, you can create Web pages or a Web site easily with TopPage as if you create documents with a word processor. HTML tags need not concern you, because the required tags are automatically embedded into the document.