Searching on the internet

A website is a set of pages on the world wide web that are linked together in a meaningful way. This is what the home page of Lead Scotland’s website looks like.

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A screenshot of the Lead Scotland website’s home page. It includes links to sections titled ‘Support for disabled people to learn’, ‘Carers’, ‘Volunteer’ and ‘Support us’. It also features highlighted information on learning options and services during the Coronavirus pandemic.

To find things on the web, you need a type of software called a web browser. When you look for a particular website, the browser finds the content from a web server and then displays the resulting web page on your device.

A software program installed on your computer is a set of instructions that enable you to interact with the hardware and to perform tasks. For example, your browser software allows you to surf the internet and to read this page.

Table 3 below summarises the types of software installed on most computers.