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URL: Uniform Resource Locator

This presentation is on URLs. URL sounds exotic – it stands for uniform resource locator – but it is just a geek term for a Web address. A URL is the address of a resource on the Web. You've typed URLs into Web browsers many times, but may not have thought about the meanings of each of the four parts of a URL. We will review them and also mention shortened URLs. In order to understand the parts of a URL, we will also cover domain names, directories and file names.

Keywords:: parts of a URL, compose URLs, shortened URLs, directories, domain names, file names

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Academic Support Services / Library and Information Services / Information and Communication Technology Literacy / Information Literacy Standards

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Material Type:: Tutorial
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 22, 2011
Date Modified in MERLOT:: June 22, 2016
Author:: Larry Press, CSUDH
Submitter:: Larry Press

Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States