Frequently Asked Questions about the Internet
What is the World Wide Web?
What is a Homepage?
What is a Website?
What is Hosting?
What do Search Engines and Internet
Directories do?
What are URLs?
How do customers find me on the
Internet?
What is the World Wide Web?
The part of the Internet that has documents of information stored in pages. These pages
can have text, graphics (photos, clipart, and video), and sound. These pages are linked
across the Internet so you can go from one page to another.
What is a Homepage?
A homepage is a place or location where information about a person, business, or
organization is displayed on the World Wide Web. A homepage can be one or many pages of
information.
What is a Website?
This is the technical name for a homepage and sometimes is used interchangeably. Again,
it can consist of one or many pages of information.
What is Hosting?
For homepages to be available for everyone to see they have to be on a computer that is
attached to the Internet and running at all times. When you contract with us, theNetPages
provides this hosting service for your homepage.
What do Search Engines and Internet Directories
do?
The Internet has millions of homepages on almost an infinite variety of topics. Search
engines and directories let people find just those homepages that have the information of
interest to them. There are hundreds of search engines and directories — popular ones
include Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek, Altavista, Lycos, Webcrawler, and HotBot.
What are URLs?
Think of a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) as an address for a specific homepage on the
Internet. It tells customers where to reach you. If they have it, they can find you
without using a search engine. This URL is as valuable as your phone number. And like your
phone number you should place it on your business cards and stationery, and include it in
advertising and signage.
How do customers find me on the
Internet?
Customers can find your site in a number of ways. If they have your URL, they can enter
this address directly and go right to your site. They can be referred to your home page
from other websites (theNetPages and others) or from various search engines and
directories. We can submit your homepage to 150 of the top search engines and directories
for a modest fee. This will make it easy for customers to find
you. In addition, we provide a link from our homepage to yours.
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