The NET
A Little Information about the WWW (The World Wide Web - the Internet)
The Internet is a system of linked computer networks, international in scope, that facilitates data communication services such as remote login, file transfer, electronic mail, and newsgroups. The Internet is a way of connecting existing computer networks that greatly extends the reach of each participating system.

The Internet has only been available to the public since approximately the early 90's. It is the fastest growing communications medium in the history of communications in the world. A single web page can attract many thousands of visitors in a single day. Print advertisements, brochures and catalogues that you normally pay hundreds of dollars to create, print and distribute, can be re-created to adapt to the WWW for a fraction of the cost and can be left in place for ever. No more added costs associated with continuous re-printing and distribution.

Space on the Internet is far less costly than space in a newspaper or magazine, and there are no printing or mailing costs involved. Secure on line ordering provides your clients with the ease of being only a mouse click away from ordering your products from their own home or office.

Your product or service is made available to your prospective customer's 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on the WWW.

SWR iT Services can create your Internet Presence by applying Design, Development, and Implementation Strategies, using our skills, knowledge and resources to create the best advertising medium available, with the look and feel you want for your business or organisation. We custom design all our sites with a personalised service on a 1 to 1 basis. We hope this information is of assistance to you while trying to decide when to implement your companies web presence.

Internet Domain Name (URL)
Unified Resource Locator.(www.yourcompanyname.com.au). Every organisation that wants a web site up and running on the internet needs to purchase a Domain Name, which becomes registered as your URL.

http://
The Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is the set of rules for exchanging files, text, graphic images, sound, video and other multimedia material over the World Wide Web.

HTML
Hyper Text Markup Language, the coding language used to create hypertext documents (pages), for the World Wide Web. In HTML, a block of text can be surrounded with tags that indicate how it should appear (for example, in bold face or italics). Also in HTML, a word, a block of text, or an image can be linked to another file on the Web. HTML files are viewed with an Internet Browser, like Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Mozilla's Firefox.

Web Browser
A web browser is a piece of software required to access web sites on the internet. Microsoft distribute a free web browser with their operating systems, called Microsoft Internet Explorer. There are many web browsers available on the Internet for free, like Mozilla's Firefox and Maxthon, the way we surf the web. Both of those browsers are what are known as tabbed browsers. They allow you to have many tabs open at the same time giving you the opportunity to surf the net on more than one screen at a time with only one instance of the browser running.

What is a cookie
A small text file of information that certain Web sites attach to a user's hard drive while the user is browsing the Web site. A Cookie can contain information such as user ID, user preferences, shopping cart information, etc. Cookies can contain Personally Identifiable Information. Cookies do not harm a machine.