WebTeach
 
 
WEB ADDRESS - URL
 
 
ADDRESS: home ADDRESS: personal ss# ADDRESS: web 
123 West Sunnyside 
Chicago, IL  60600		 444-77-9642 http://www.uchicago.edu
 
In the same way that your home has an address and you have a social security number, each of the millions of pages on the World Wide Web has an address.   

A web address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). 

URLs are typed in the Netscape "location" box and the Internet Explorer "address" box. 

The importance of writing home addresses and social security numbers accurately is also true of URLs: 

  • URLs consist of letters, numbers, and punctuation and are read from left to right
  • URLs are case sensitive; be sure to use upper and lower case letters appropriately
  • URLs must be typed perfectly or an error message will occur
  • URL example:                 http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/99/teams/webteach/proj/wtmenu.htm
 
 
PROTOCOL
SERVER NAME
DOMAIN NAME
PATH -DIRECTORIES
 FILENAME
http:// cuip uchicago.edu wit/99/teams/webteach/proj wtmenu.htm