can anybody please explain to me what html and url are?

Question

and what the advantages of having the knowledge are

thanks

Answer 1

HTML stands for "Hyper Text Markup Language" and is basically a code that you use to design webpages. The advantages to knowing this is that you can make your own webpages.

URL stands for "Uniform Resource Locator" and is a way to make connecting to other computer easier for the average person. Instead of typing "184.364.122.986" to get to a site like Google, you just have to type www.google.com.

Answer 2

Webpages on the internet are stored in files which are downloaded and displayed by the browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, Konqueror, etc).

To allow the pages to be downloaded efficiently and in a way which is compatible by all computers, a language was used called Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML for short. Its prime objective was to break the complicated and non-standard characters in the files into short, simple characters. In doing so, computers could decide for themselves the best way to display the codes, and the file had higher compression rates as it only used a small number of different chahracters. This is very good for standard ZIP methods (such as PKZIP, now used by WinZip by default) and allowed large pages to be downloaded in a very small length of time.

As these webpages are stored in files on computers across the world, some way of referencing them was needed. On your computer, you can access files by referencing the C:\ drive, all folders inside as necessary and then the file itself. On the internet, this isn't as practical.

In response to this, a Universal Resource Locator (which may be given a slightly different name, but always abbreviated to URL) is used. This breaks the path name down into four parts. This is:

protocol://domain/subfolder/filename

The protocol tells the networking system how to access the file. The most common on the internet is HTTP, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol. This is designed specifically for HTML files, and is so far the most efficient way to transfer them.
The domain is the computer where the file is stored. There are a few naming conventions around, but most are www.nameofwebsite.type.
The folder is optional, and can be repeated many times in a row if required. It is which folder (if any) the file is found once you get to the computer. Please note, the computer will start in a folder specific to the computer's settings and therefore not all folders will be accessible.
Finally the filename is the file itself. If omitted, the computer will look up a default name within the folder specified, if given. The standard default files are index.html and index.htm in that order. It'll attempt to find the first, then the second, then default to another page if still nothing can be found.


You may wish to know this in more detail if you are planning to write webpages yourself or administer a web server, or are writing some networking application (such as a browser).

Answer 3

URL is just the address that you type in to get to a page on the internet. ex. www.cnn.com is a URL

HTML is a language that you can use to build websites. It's a fairly simple language.

The only reason to learn HTML is if you are planning on building a web page and NOT going to use some sort of site building tool that figures the html for you (such as Dreamweaver or CoffeeCup).

Answer 4

uniform resource locator - thats your www.blahblahblah.xyz

and hypertext markup language
- thats what makes the page you are looking at.

go to a website other than this one and at the top of your screen click on view - then source.
all the stuff you will see is html programming.

try this site for a better understanding - www.w3schools.com

having a knowledge of html lets you design a website.

a url is just the address for the website which you type in.

i am now officially a nerd. im shutting this thing down and getting out more.

Answer 5

html is a language with which you make web pages (basic web pages}. If you want to create a basic web page you need to create it in Notepad (for example) where you write tags and that's what is called HTML.If you click on View, when you're on the internet, and then on Source you will see HTML. .Url is an address that you type into the bar in your browser, for example www.google.com
Regards
Milan

Answer 6

Html-hyper text markup language. this is a simple programming language used to build website. URL is the area where you insert a site name in a browser.

Answer 7

Well html is use for like if you own a web site and want to make it look better well you use html to do so


also urls are web address just like (www.yahoo.com this is a url)


Hope that helps

Answer 8

I will simply and succinctly define the terms

html: hyper text markup language, this "language" is commonly used to make websites and other online applications. It tells the computer how and what to display on your internet browser.

url: uniform resource locator, is what you type in to go to a website for example www.yahoo.com is considered a version of a url also known as a domain name

Answer 9

HTML (hypertext markup language) is the language used to create web sites.

URL (uniform resource locater) is the address of a web page.

Answer 10

HTML is a programming language. typically used to create websites.