Web sites are found by their addresses. Each web site has a URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, assigned to it. This is how a URL is broken down:
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- http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0526.htm is our example.
- http://: type of file
- domain name: location of the file's web server is at websearch.about.com.
- backslash,then file name: path or directory on the computer to this file; which in our case is "od/dailywebsearchtips/qt". You're just basically moving from sub-directory to sub-directory here.
- name of file: name of file, usually ending in .html or .htm. My file name is "dnt0526".
