World Wide Web, web browsers, and web authoring

The following is a small selection of introductory texts from Indiana University's Knowledge Base. You can also search for particular words or phrases throughout the entire Knowledge Base with the full-text search.

Contents

• General introduction to the World Wide Web
• Web browsers
• Web authoring
• Personal web pages at IU
• Departmental/student organization web pages at IU
• Resources on the web
• Troubleshooting

General introduction to the World Wide Web

• What is the Internet?
• What is the World Wide Web?
• What is a URL?
• What is HTTP?
• What are cookies?
• What are plug-ins?
• What is a PDF file?
• On the web, what are frames, and how do I navigate with them?
• What are secure web sites and SSL certificates?
• What are Server Side Includes?

For more information, search the Knowledge Base on web standards, for example.

Web browsers

• What is a browser, and what browsers are available?
• What is Mozilla Firefox, and where can I get it?
• What is Microsoft Internet Explorer, and where can I get it?
• What is Safari?
• For Mac OS X, what web browsers are available?
• What is Mozilla?
• At IUB or IUPUI, what information will I need to configure my Internet software?

For more information, search the Knowledge Base.

Web authoring

• In HTML, what are some common tags?
• What is HTML, and where can I find a guide for creating HTML documents?
• What is CSS?
• How can I submit the URL of my web page to search engines?
• How do I limit access to my World Wide Web pages?
• What is the difference between an absolute and a relative URL?
• What are the 216 web browser-safe colors?
• For my web page, how can I automatically redirect visitors to a different URL?
• How can I protect my web pages from email address harvesting?
• At IU, where can I get help creating a web page?
• At IU, how can I receive email about my central server web page?
• At IU, what tools are available on Webserve?

For more information, search the Knowledge Base on html author or html write, for example.

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Personal web pages at IU

• At IU, what is Mypage, and how can I publish a web page there?
• At IU, what is the URL for my web page?
• At IU, what should I know about putting information about myself on my personal web page?
• What is IU policy on using information technology resources for commercial advertisement?
• At IU, how do I add or remove a link from the Directory of Personal Home Pages to my web page?
• At IU, how do I remove my personal web page?

For more information, search the Knowledge Base on mypage or mypage error, for example.

Departmental/student organization web pages at IU

• At IU, who can have an account on Webserve, and how do I get one?
• At IU, what is the difference between Webserve and Mercury?
• At IUB, how can I get my web page linked from the university web site?
• At IUB, where can faculty and instructors find help developing web-based instructional resources?
• What is Transform?
• At IU, how can I receive email about my central server web page?
• For the university web server (Webserve), what address should I use when making an SSH or SFTP connection to my account?
• At IU, how can my department sell items through its web site?
• At IU, what is the URL for my web page?
• At IU, what is a virtual hostname, and how can I get one for my web site?

For more information, search the Knowledge Base on university web server, for example.

Resources on the web

• How can I search for information on the World Wide Web?
• Where can I find IUB computing support services on the web?
• Where can I find online information about IU events?
• Where can I find online information about the IUB Libraries?
• How can I access information about IT Training & Education STEPS workshops and online training via the web?
• Where can I find US government information online?
• Where can I find information about adaptive technology?

For more information, search the Knowledge Base on web instructional or web research books, for example.

Troubleshooting

• How can I view a web page that my browser has difficulty displaying?
• At IU, why do I get a "Certificate Name" error message when I attempt to view my secure web page?
• Why am I still seeing errors on my web page even though I have corrected them?
• Why does my web page look different when I use different computers and web browsers?
• When I try to look at my web page, what does it mean when I receive a "500" or "Internal Server" error?
• At IU, what should I do if people get an error message when they try to view my web page?

For more information, search the Knowledge Base on html error or web browser error, for example.