However, the user can change this home page setting to any web page or site he or she prefers. From a web site developer's perspective, the home page is the first page seen by a user when he or she visits the site. The markup language instructs the web browser on how to display the information and content contained in the web page, where to link to and much more. Hyperlinks are the ties that bind. They are the specially coded parts of the web page that allow for the web surfer to jump between connected sections and web pages.
Hyperlinks can be images or text.
Text hyperlinks are usually underlined and are blue. Typically, when a user places the cursor on an image or text hyperlink the cursor will change from the standard arrow to a pointing finger. When clicking on a hyperlink with the mouse, the user will be transported to another web page. The Internet is world's largest computer network, made up of thousands of smaller networks and computers all interconnected together via wire line, wireless and satellite telecommunications. It is one of the many components of the Internet that has over the past five years exploded in popularity and use.