Surfing the Internet Online Course
Chapter 10
Web Sites

is a Website for Sweet Grass County and is Sponsoring this course.

A web site is a collection of related pages. Websites contain information with a common purpose or relationship.

Examples of the function of websites are:

• Online Trading
• Auctions
• List of Doctors

Each website has an address (also called a domain name or URL).  The address is analogous to your mailing address.  A websites addresses helps servers find hosts where the website is stored.  These addresses look like www.sweetgrasscounty.com.  This is the address of the website for Sweet Grass County Network.  www.sweetgrasscounty.com is the address- which is also called its URL or Domain Name. URL stands for (Uniform Resource Locator) in computer jargon.  Domain is where something resides, so the site for Sweet Grass County resides or has a domain name of www.sweetgrasscounty.com.