What is a webpage anyway?

A web page is basically a page of text like an MS Word file that is formatted in a specific way.

A typical web page uses formatting rules that tell the web browser (MS Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox) to display the text in a certain way. The browser uses special rules (called tags) to define the text and graphics into blocks.

The rules that a web page uses to display text & graphics is called HTML or HyperText Markup Language. Lots of other types of rules exist that perform different functions such as PHP or ASP that allows your to connect to databases, and DHTML, JavaScript and many others that let you do really cool stuff.

So...at it's simplest a web page is a file that sits on a remote computer (called a server). The server dishes out web pages when you select them through your address bar on your web browser.

For instance if you type "http://www.nine9.co.uk" into your web browser address bar, a web page called "index.htm" is displayed. This page (index.htm) is examined by your web browser (Internet Explorer) and displays it on your computer screen.