Home Pages Home pages are used to provide information on individuals , enterprises , organizations . Usually a home page contains the broadest set of information about the entity with hypertext links branching down into subordinant pages. Just as an electronic mail address is required to send someone a message over the internet, URL's are necessary to access information. When Mosaic or another web reader is provided with a URL, either by the user keying it in or clicking on highlighted hypertext, the reader initiates a request to the server named in the URL to provide a copy of the file designated. In addition to text and graphics, users can specify in html a map .
Maps are graphics that contain links to textual information or to other graphics.
A Texan planning a trip to Palo Alto, for instance, scanned a Web-based map of the city of Palo Alto , provided by the Chamber of Commerce , and identified an accommodation close to the site of his meeting. The proprietor of the bed and breakfast, although unaware that their name appeared on a listing on the Web, was delighted by the prospect of this new distribution channel. Forms Html also supports the use of data capture forms . For instance, The Management Information Systems Quarterly , a journal of research on information systems management , and Grant's Florist and Greenhouse both used the forms fill-in capability to take orders for their merchandise. Other web merchandisers rely on electronic mail addresses for ordering.