What's a url

A short simple powerpoint I put together Feb 2012 for Year 8s.

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 W orld W ide W eb. These addresses are known as URL s o r ? U niform R esource L ocators 6/07/2012

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 6/07/2012

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/ 6/07/2012

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 6/07/2012

6. White Pages Australia www.whitepages.com.au/ Vacations & Holidays in Austria www.austria.info/au Real Estate business in the USA http://realestatecentral.biz/ The Fred Hollows Foundation www.hollows.org.au/ School Library Association of SA www.slasa.asn.au/ South Australian TAFE www.tafesa.edu.au/ Australian Government website http://australia.gov.au/ ABC Network www.abc.net.au/ Here are some examples using the following domain names .com .info .biz .org . asn . edu . gov .net 6/07/2012

7. 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. The URL can also tell you - 6/07/2012