Every web page has a unique address on the Internet.  This is known as its Uniform Resource Locator, URL for short.

You can see the URL of a web page you are visiting in the Location/Address box of your web browser.

A typical URL is: http://www.acu.edu.au/student-life/index.cfm

URLs consist of four elements

• protocol http
• server name.domain name www.acu.edu.au
• directory student-life
• filename index.cfm

Place your mouse pointer over each of the bullet points for a more detailed explanation.

You will find that some URLs have numerous directories: http://www.acu.edu.au/student-life/index.cfm

and some have none: http://www.acu.edu.au