September 8th, 2010

Web Site Evaluation Lesson


What to look for in a site:




Often evaluation will cover different criteria at one time, ie authority and purpose.





URL: (Uniform Resource Locater) Used to identify and find different pages on the internet


http://www.aids.org/atn/a-072-06.html

A person's individual web site is often indicated by a ~ (called a tilda) in the individual page name.

http://www.anydomain.com/students/~bob

Top Level Domain Names: (TLDs).com, .gov, .mil, .org,.net, .edu

The selected TLDs are: .aero (forthe air-transport industry), .biz (for businesses), .coop (for cooperatives),.info (for all uses), .museum (for museums), .name (for individuals), and .pro(for professions).

Domain Names: To help find a particular computer on the internet

HTML:( Hypertext Markup Language) A standardized computer language for web pages


http:// www .aids .org /atn /a-072-06.html
hypertext transfer protocol world
wide
web
domain
name
top level
domain
name
file
name
individual
page
name
           
           
 
 
 


Up-dated pages (computer code?)

Would you like to know when a specific Web page was last updated?  Go up to Tools, scroll down to Page Info, and look for Modified

SchoolCenter Picture






Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

WTO WTO (2)

Google Technology

Martin Luther King

Haggis Hunt

Dog Island (Free Forever)

Victorian Robots

Mcwhortle

Sellafield (Nuclear) Zoo

DHMO θ

DeHydrated Water

VELCRO

MANKATO

REAL AROMA

POP TARTS

DANGERS OF BREAD

http:// www .aids .org /atn /a-072-06.html
hypertext transfer protocol world
wide
web
domain
name
top level
domain
name
file
name
individual
page
name