One of the major uses of Computers is in facilitating communication of secure information over the Internet. One of the major developments in this respect is the World Wide Web (WWW) - also called simply the Web. The WWW have made major inroads in development of web based communities, collaboration, services and applications such as social networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs etc. Today many technologies and services are available through the Internet. Internet has caused permeation of information at grass root level. This course discusses about various technologies that are the basis of Internet on which the WWW and other services like e-mail, messenger etc. Have been developed. One of the key issues discussed in this course include how to develop a simple web page and web site. With the enhancement of communication bandwidth, better applications involving multimedia have been developed. Therefore, this course also discusses about multimedia applications.Course Credit: 4