Hypermedia Definition

Hypermedia is media that uses hypertext (HTML), which can link to other locations by clicking on the appropriate link and can incorporate sound, video, animation etc . This document is linked by hypertext to other documents or other places within the same document. “The Contents” index at the start is another example of hypertext. The most common use of hypermedia is on the web.

 

Hypermedia: URL's

 

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

A URL is a web address. The URL is split into several parts:

 

Protocol: http:// (this means hypertext transfer protocol). Domain name: which is the address of the server where the resource is located i.e ‘www.kogarahhigh.edu.au’. This domain name can be replaced by an IP address which is just numbers. File path: which tells you where on the server the file the file is stored. I.e. /bettsipt/12ipt/index.html/. This tells you that on the previous server ‘www.kogarahhigh.edu.au’ that there is a folder called ‘bettsipt’. In the ‘bettsipt’ there is another folder called ‘12ipt’. Inside that ‘12ipt’ folder is a file called ‘index.html’

 

The complete address would look like this: