Introduction to Web Addresses

Web pages and web sites are located at specific "addresses" on the World Wide Web. Another name for web address is Uniform Resource Locator or URL. The URL or web address tells you where on the World Wide Web a specific page or site is located. This makes things a lot easier when you need to go back to a certain web page.

Here's a typical web address:

http://www.cnn.com.

This is the URL for CNN's web site. To find out more about web addresses, use your left mouse button to click on the word next.