Web Development Lab 1

The first web development lab had us use Code Academy to get used to the basics of html. Through it, we learned how to do things such as insert an image on to a website or have a link that led to a different webpage.

1. What is an IP address? How does it work?

An IP (Internet Protocol) adress is a certain order or numbers that are used by computers to communicate with other computers over a network. Each address contains up to 3 numbers that are between 0 to 255, and a period that separates the sets of number (for example, an IP address might look like 34.28.143.)

2. What is a domain name? How does it relate to the IP address?

A domain name is a tool used by the computer to identify the IP address. In a URL, a domain name helps the user and the computer find out more about the website. Most domains are divided into two sections, called the top-level domain (TLD) and the second-level domain (SLD). TLDs are anything that come after the dot, such as .com or .org, while SLDs are the name that comes before the dot. For example, in the URL wikipedia.org, the TLD would be .org, while the SLD is wikipedia.

3. What does HTML stand for?

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and is the programming language that is used to write information on the web (including this website).

4. What is the default page named in a website?

The default page in a website is normally named index.html.

5. What is the image html tag?

The "img" tag notifies the computer that there is an image present in the HTML page. Rather than having the image be present in the webpage, however, the images are linked to the HTML page. The "img" tag simply holds a space in the webpage for the image to go in.