in this video we talk about the uniform resource locator or uol for short [Applause] [Music] a uniform resource locator or url for short is a unique text-based address that relates to a web page these web pages are accessed by typing their url into a web browser such as google chrome microsoft edge or apple safari we see an example url here at the top of the screen in our mocked up web browser it's made up of various parts the first part here is known as the protocol here we're using https which is a secure method of sending web traffic we talk about these protocols in a bit more detail in a later video next we have the host part following this we have the actual domain name known as the website domain in this case craigandave.org when we add the host and the domain name together we get what's known as the fully qualified domain name depending where you go within a given website there may then be additional parts to the url so here we see a location so with inside the craig and dave.org domain we've gone to a page called note taking and then to a separate page within that called templates and then finally on the end we have the actual resource this could either be an actual web page itself the one you're viewing or particular file you're downloading what's important here is it's all the parts of this combined together which is known as the url that's everything you need to know for your exams pause the video and take some notes [Music] [Applause] [Music] you