Urls

[yazzyfooty]

URL's What are they? Does everyone have one? How can you find out what your own one is?

[Lou]

Originally Posted by The wonderful world of Wikipedia

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a string of characters conforming to a standardized format, which refers to a resource on the Internet (such as a document or an image) by its location. For example, the URL of this page on Wikipedia is Uniform Resource Locator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

An HTTP URL, commonly called a web address, is usually shown in the address bar of a web browser.

The term is typically pronounced as either a spelled-out initialism ("yoo arr ell") or as an acronym (earl or ural as in the Ural Mountains).

Tim Berners-Lee created the URL in 1991 to allow the publishing of hyperlinks on the World Wide Web, a fundamental innovation in the history of the Internet. Since 1994, the URL has been subsumed into the more general Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), but URL is still a widely used term.

No, we don't all have one and if you do you know what it is...

[yazzyfooty]

thanks lou............seems you only have an url if you have a website? Am I reading that correctly?

[Lou]

Originally Posted by yazzyfooty

thanks lou............seems you only have an url if you have a website? Am I reading that correctly?

Yes - it is just the website address.

[Harlequin]

Yaz

A URL (or domain) can be used for a number of things:

1. e-mail (predominant use)
2. Website

Now, a URL AKA "Domain" is comprised of two parts: the domain name and the TLD (Top Level Domain) such as .co.uk or .com. I won't bore you with more on that though.

I have a number of customers who simply want their own domain for e-mail purposes e.g. yaz@mydomain.com or yaz@mydomain.co.uk Now, this is fine, cheap and a great way of having a personalised e-mail account.

But, once you have the domain, you can also have a website but you then need to buy hosting for that website (most providers would give you a domain name with e-mail and hosting included) and then of-course you have to design that website.

Too much information Yaz...?