Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

The Need for Simple Navigation

An Internet site might contain several Web pages; the first screen that you visit for any site generally is its home page. The home page often contains links to other pages on the site and to other home pages on the Internet.

For example, if you visit Que Publishing's Web site at http://www.quepublishing.com, you'll see a home page like the one in Figure 16.2. The mouse cursor changes shape when you move it over a hypertext link to another page or to a definition box, which pops up when you click the mouse.

Figure 16.2. Web pages are graphical and often connected to other sites.

Each page that you see on the Web is ...