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Year 8 · Autumn 2 · Building the Web

Text, links and images

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What this lesson covers

Topic 16 The web

KS3 Computing · A web page is text written in HTML (what's on the page), styled with CSS (how it looks), sometimes with JavaScript (what it does). Your browser fetches it from a web server using a URL and HTTP.

Networks and Digital CommunicationCambridge Lower Secondary Computing 0860

You will learn to

  • Use the ul and li tags to make a bullet list.
  • Create a link with the a tag and its href attribute.
  • Add an image with src and alt attributes, and explain why alt text matters.
  • Identify the protocol, domain and path in a URL, using the URL toy.

Success criteria

  • I can add a list, a link and an image to my page.
  • I can explain that an attribute adds extra information inside the opening tag.
  • I can write alt text that describes an image for someone who cannot see it.
  • I can take a URL apart and name each part.

Key words

Say each word, then read what it means. Every one is in the glossary too.

URL
The full web address of something online.
Protocol
A set of agreed rules for communication.
HTML
Markup language for the content of web pages.
CSS
Language that styles how web pages look.

The explanation

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Reading a URL

A URL is the full address of one thing on the web: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology?page=2

PartExampleMeaning
Protocolhttps://Which rules. The s means encrypted
Domainwww.bbc.co.ukWhich server. DNS turns it into an IP address
Top-level domain.co.ukCountry or type (.uk, .es, .com)
Path/news/technologyWhich page on the server
Query?page=2Extra information for the page

Study it

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Topic 16 · Year 8

The web

A web page is text written in HTML (what's on the page), styled with CSS (how it looks), sometimes with JavaScript (what it does). Your browser fetches it using a URL.

The steps for this lesson

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