- Web information is stored in documents called web pages.
- Web pages are files stored on computers called web servers.
- Computers reading the web pages are called web clients.
- Web clients view the pages with a program called a web browser.
- Popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
- A browser fetches a page from a web server by a request.
- A request is a standard HTTP request containing a page address.
- An address may look like this: http://www.someone.com/page.htm.
- The collection of all your web pages is called your web site.
- To let others view your work, you must publish your web site.
- To publish your work, you must copy your site to a web server.
- Your own PC can act as a web server if it is connected to a network.
- Most common is to use an Internet Service Provider
If you want other people to view your web site, you must
copy your site to a public server. Even if you can use your
own PC as a web server, it is more common to let an Internet
Service Provider ISP host your site.
Included in a Web hosting solution you can expect
to find domain name registration and standard email services.