WHAT IS A WEBSITE?
WHAT IS A WEBSITE?
For the people who are completely new to the websites and they want to know how websites will work? and what actually websites are? it is very difficult to understand what is a website or what a web page is. They just visit a website to for entertainment, reading or buying something else But some of them start taking interest about the website and they want to know that what is website even some of they want to create a website like what kind of website they are visiting. After all, you have landed on one here.
Let’s look at a few terms and describe them.
world wide web (www)
The world wide web is a set of many thousands of computers that are connected to the internet and serving web pages. These computers are usually controlled by a hosting company but in some cases can also be a personal server or business server that has web server software running.
Web server
A web server is an actual computer that is set up to serve web pages to the world through the internet. This takes a very fast internet connection because of the possibility of hundreds of people using the server and posted websites at any given time.
Website
A website is a group of web pages that have information in the various pages that contain similar subject materials. For instance, the web site would have a name (subject) such as GoodFords.com and have several pages related to good Ford vehicles. The website has a main web page commonly called the Homepage (index.html or default.html). The site’s address will display the homepage and you can click on hyperlinks to go to other pages on the website.
Webpage
A webpage is a text page written in a form of HTML (hypertext markup language) that contains text, links or tags that will display graphics, audio, video, downloadable files and of course other web pages.
A web page is a page containing information on a subject. As in the above example, a page could be on Ford Mustangs, and another page on the same website, pertaining to Ford Thunderbirds and on and on.
A web page is a page containing information on a subject. As in the above example, a page could be on Ford Mustangs, and another page on the same website, pertaining to Ford Thunderbirds and on and on.
Web browser
A web browser (Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Mozilla’s Firefox for example) is a program that translates the code that makes up a webpage (HTML) into a form that we can recognize.
Hyperlinks
A hyperlink is usually shown as a blue underlined term on a web page that equates to another web page on the same website or another related website.
HTML and its versions
HTML
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the computer programming language that defines the content, layout, links, and graphics that when converted by a web browser creates the web page that we see on our screen. HTML has been around for many years and is quite limited in its original scope. Even after several updates it still could not do the rather fancy things that we see in web pages today. We used to have to write different pages in order to show the same page information on different browser platforms since the browsers interpret the code in different ways. If you would like to see what HTML looks like, go to your homepage and right click your mouse. Select the show page source (or similar) and you will see what the pages HTML looks like. It looks confusing but it is really not.
XHTML
eXtensible HyperText Language (XHTML) is an extension of the latest HTML 4.01 based on XML (eXtensible Markup Language). This is considered the next version of HTML. XHTML is designed to ensure that all web pages look and act the same across all platforms (browsers). XHTML is a cleaner, more strict version of HTML and has many new capabilities to better manipulate layout and data. This is currently superseding the older HTML. Some people call this Web2.
Let’s cover some things that you will need to create and maintain for your own web presence.
The purpose of all of the information on these pages is to help you better understand the steps and intricacies of beginning internet marketing.
We want you to succeed and to be able to create and maintain a constant flow of income from your business. It is important to have as much information as possible to attain these goals.
Every successful marketer has a web presence including a business domain name hosted at a reputable hosting company. As a matter of fact, most marketers have several domain names for the many different companies that they are actively marketing.
So now you have written down a number of different names for your website and we need to know if any of them are available. We like to use GoDaddy’s domain search since it gives us a number of alternative names if the one we are looking for is already taken. Click this link to get to the domain search page then click on the Domains tab.
GoDaddy Search. You do not have to purchase anything yet unless you want to get the name before anyone else does. We just want to see what is available. Write down all domain names that you search for. Both available and already taken.
OK, we found a great name that is available and is a good description of our business but we have not purchased it yet. Now we need a hosting company to host it for us. Our favourites are HostGator and BlueHost and GoDaddy. All three are great and you should go to each site to see which one has the best current deals and the information you are curious about. Look over the hosting sites and choose the one that you feel most comfortable with. Try their support number and talk to a representative. This is a great test of their support staff and will certainly be important later when you have questions concerning your upcoming websites.
All Right! We have decided upon a hosting company and a domain name (website). The root of the website is the same name as your domain name in most cases. Our example site is example.com so at the host, we have a folder called example. In this folder, we will place all of our web pages for the internet marketing campaign we have decided to market.
Now we need a web page called a home page or landing page. This is the main page of your domain and the first page a person will find for your site. This page is usually called index.html or default.html.
We want you to succeed and to be able to create and maintain a constant flow of income from your business. It is important to have as much information as possible to attain these goals.
Every successful marketer has a web presence including a business domain name hosted at a reputable hosting company. As a matter of fact, most marketers have several domain names for the many different companies that they are actively marketing.
So now you have written down a number of different names for your website and we need to know if any of them are available. We like to use GoDaddy’s domain search since it gives us a number of alternative names if the one we are looking for is already taken. Click this link to get to the domain search page then click on the Domains tab.
GoDaddy Search. You do not have to purchase anything yet unless you want to get the name before anyone else does. We just want to see what is available. Write down all domain names that you search for. Both available and already taken.
OK, we found a great name that is available and is a good description of our business but we have not purchased it yet. Now we need a hosting company to host it for us. Our favourites are HostGator and BlueHost and GoDaddy. All three are great and you should go to each site to see which one has the best current deals and the information you are curious about. Look over the hosting sites and choose the one that you feel most comfortable with. Try their support number and talk to a representative. This is a great test of their support staff and will certainly be important later when you have questions concerning your upcoming websites.
All Right! We have decided upon a hosting company and a domain name (website). The root of the website is the same name as your domain name in most cases. Our example site is example.com so at the host, we have a folder called example. In this folder, we will place all of our web pages for the internet marketing campaign we have decided to market.
Now we need a web page called a home page or landing page. This is the main page of your domain and the first page a person will find for your site. This page is usually called index.html or default.html.
How do we make this page or website? We need to learn more about basic HTML language to make changes which are very important to create a simple webpage. You do not need to be an expert but you should know how to make a few simple changes to the pages that you will be making. I guess it’s enough introduction to the website in next post I will teach you how to create web pages and the next is about how to create a website and please share this post to let others learn about the website stay healthy and happy.
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