Having received a response to the query, which is an HTML document, the web client composes the screen representation of the document. The web client issues HTTP queries to satisfy hyperlink clicks on behalf of the person browsing the web. These are pages created and maintained by a WPI academic or administrative department, office, program or center for the purpose of conveying information about the department, office, program or center. These pages should follow the Style Elements for Department Pages . The home page or top-level page of each department is considered an University Page and should follow the Style Elements for Univeristy Pages .
Web forms permit a user to return information to a web server for some action.
The forms are handled by a CGI program. For example, the mailto form offers spaces for you to enter the subject and content of the message, and the CGI processing consists of mailing the message. The page returned from a URL consisting of only the HTTP protocol and an Internet address is called the home page of a web site . A publishing language, not a programming language, that allows us to determine the structure, not the layout, of a hypertext document. HTML focuses on the content of the document, not the appearance.