What's a url
- 1. What’s a URL? What makes up a web address?
- 2. Online Resources (documents, images, videos etc) are found by their addresses on the World Wide Web. These addresses are known as URLs or ? Uniform Resource Locators 5/07/2012
- 3. Every website has a URL assigned to it so both searchers and the Web servers can find them easily and quickly. From the URL you can usually work out – •the organisation hosting the website after the http:// or www. For example: www.redcross.org.au is the Australian Red Cross organisation 5/07/2012
- 4. Every website has a URL assigned to it From the URL you can usually work out – •the author’s name further back in the URL, sometimes with a ~ For example: http://www.johnmarsden.com.au OR http://www.example.com/~janesmith/ 5/07/2012
- 5. From the URL you can also work out – • the type of domain (sometimes an indicator of the content within the site) e.g. personal blog; social networking page; not-for-profit organisation (e.g. charities); an educational institution or government site Domain names include: .com .info .biz .org .asn .edu .gov .net 5/07/2012
- 6. Here are some examples using the following domain names .com .info .biz .org .asn .edu .gov .net White Pages Australia School Library Association of SA www.whitepages.com.au/ www.slasa.asn.au/ Vacations & Holidays in Austria South Australian TAFE www.austria.info/au www.tafesa.edu.au/ Real Estate business in the USA Australian Government website http://realestatecentral.biz/ http://australia.gov.au/ The Fred Hollows Foundation ABC Network www.hollows.org.au/ www.abc.net.au/ 5/07/2012
- 7. The URL can also tell you - •the country of posting the URL may include a two letter country code near the end of the address. For example: .au .uk .jp .in .de .nz .fr .sa .ie .kr .za .nl (there is no code for the USA, where the Internet originated) *Do you know which countries belong to the codes above? Work in pairs & use the Internet to help you find the answers if necessary. 5/07/2012