A URL is the address for a resource on the Internet. It may be the address for a web server's home page or another file on the server. The first part of the URL, before the colon, specifies the access method. Knowing the URL of a server or file is useful for setting bookmarks to resources you wish to return to. Your browser's bookmark feature will record the URL exactly as written.
Most browsers store the title of a web page in the bookmark list.
These titles are sometimes not meaningful and you may need to edit your list to better identify the resources. An important thing to keep in mind when bookmarking a file URL vs. the server URL is that the location of files on a server sometimes change, or files are purposely deleted when they become outdated, and when that happens a file-specific URL may no longer work. If this happens to you, eliminate the file path at the end of the URL to get to the server's home page. See Navigating a Web Page . An icon with a question mark in place of the image means the server has not found that image file where it expects to.