In this page, we provide an overview of the issues web page designers should consider. Designing web pages differs from designing regular text documents because web pages are hypertext documents. Hypertext documents are computer files. Accessing information on a computer screen is different from accessing information from printed material. But they can select hypertext links to locate information.
Hyperlinks provide the means to navigate quickly and easily among computer files.
They can be embedded in text or images. When viewed with a web browser , hypertext links usually appear underlined and are a different color from the surrounding text. Hypertext is composed of computer files which may contain text, images, sounds, or even movies which are linked to other locations within the same file, to other computer files on the same computer or local network, or to other computer files stored anywhere on the global network called the Internet or World Wide Web. In most other ways, hypertext documents are like regular text documents. Hypertext documents are written using HTML to format the text so that a web browser like Netscape can display the document correctly.