World Wide Web (www)

World Wide Web (www) is a service provided in Internet. There is a misunderstanding that www and Internet are the same because of the popularity of www. It is an added attraction of Internet. This is not a program or facility of Internet. But still it can be considered as the most useful facility in Internet. www is a network of documents with a software to interact with these documents.

Website: Website is a facility to provide information to the world. World Wide Web keeps all websites together. Once a website is created (with the information about a person or about a business, whatever it may be) this information can be accessed by all having Internet connections. Moreover all the websites will have a unique address eg. www.yahoo.com.

Portal and Vortal : This is a website which provides all the information and guidance while using Internet. Yahoo, Altavista etc are well known portal sites. There are many portals which are known nationally and internationally. General portals are known as horizontal portal or hortal. Portals meant for specific purpose are vertical portals or vortals. All ISPs will have their own portals.

All portals are similar to yahoo. Yahoo has classified all the websites in the world wide web into divisions and sub divisions.While creating portal sites you will have to decide the classification of information to be collected. Next is the collection of information of the divisions decided? The first step of this is to make a directory. Nowadays information like news, climate, email, stock market and maps etc. are seen in portals. There is no specific role to create a portal. When more people visit a portal, the portal becomes a success.

Home Page: When we open a web page of a person or of an origanisation, the first page displayed on the screen is the home page. This page is an index of the information included in other pages of the website. Other pages will have more detailed information.

Multimedia webpage: Some webpages are multimedia which means that the websites are combined with audio, video and text. Computers with multimedia can only display these types of websites because audio facility is available only in multimedia.