Anatomy of Web Page

Most Web pages contain many of the elements described in this section. It's important to know what these parts are because the principal task in Web authoring is deciding what content to use for each standard part.

Web Page Parts You See

The following are the elements of a Web page typically visible to visitors through a browser:

1. A Title, which most browsers display in the title bar of the browser's window.
2. Images, which are pictures that are incorporated into the layout of the page to make it more informative.
3. Background, which is a color or an image that covers the entire background of the page so that text and other images can be seen on top of it.
4. Paragraph Text, which makes up the basic, general purpose text of the page.
5. Hyperlinks (or simply Links) to other Web pages, multimedia files, document files, email addresses, etc.
6. Forms, which are areas where visitors fill in the blanks to respond to an questionnaire, order goods and services, etc.
7. Artistic Texts, which are text layers converted to images that web browser can display them.
8. Graphical Buttons, which are sets of images. When user drags the mouse over them or presses them the different image is displayed.

Web Page Parts You Don't See

In addition to the stuff you see in a Web page, the page has a number of other elements that can be included. These elements aren't usually visible to the visitor, but here are their effects:

1. Author - Identifies the name of the page author.
2. Keywords - help the search engines to index the page.
3. Description - helps the search engines to determine the topic and content of the page.

How a Web Page Works

Web Page is stored in a computer file, which has HTML format (Hyper Text Markup Language).

The HTML format file is really a text file with special codes in it that tells a browser how to display the page.

The HTML file contains all of the paragraph text that appears on the page, plus HTML tags. These tags are codes that tell a browser what to do.

The Web page graphics are not part of the HTML file. They're linked to the page as standalone files.

To see a Web Page it must be loaded into a Web browser, which is a program that knows how to do two main things:

1. Retrieve the HTML Page from Web server.
2. Interpret page's HTML tags to display a paragraph text as a paragraph text, a link as a link, a picture as a picture, etc.