Everyday hundreds of web sites are launched by people all over world .There are millions of reasons which make us launch new websites.Let me mention three of them in here by supposing .1 : If you have any kind of business then sooner or later you will need a web presence in order to boost your business and to offer your services to people from all over world .
2: Lets suppose you work for a company and that company asked you to make a website for them or make one for boosting business and communicating well with your co-workers.
3: Maybe you go to school and your school asked you to make one for them or for their journal or maybe you want to make one for your favorite movies etc .
So like I said there are millions of reasons but those three are some of main ones. Today in this article I will try to explain all you need to build your home on web today . Believe it or not within 24-hours you could have a website up and running .Lets get started then .
What are url , website, servers, intranet, internet, http,www and domain names, WYSIWYG?
You might already know basics and answers of above questions but I will still write up a short introduction and answers to them so if you don't know it can then get you started.
Url : stands for Uniform Resource Locator and it tells web browser what to do and where to go when you type it into address bar of your web browser.
Website: is a location on world wide web(www) and has a start page or home page which is first thing you see when you visit it.It contains many files and owned by an individual or organization. And today you are going to make one :)
Servers : are like normal computers but they have a lot of disk space and are connected to internet 24-hours a day , 7 days a week, 365 days, a year . Servers serve data such as web pages , pictures , applications and run many different types of programs in order to handle many different types of files.
Intranet : is more like internet but restricted to a certain organization .Organizations exchange information easily using intranets. They can do anything that can be done on internet like participating in discussion groups, viewing documents and revising them etc.
Internet :is a global network which is connected to millions of computers and it is not owned or run by a special company and it has vast collection of resources, information.
HTTP: stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and is a set of standards and tell servers how to handle web pages , for example when you type a url into address bar it then tells domain name which you typed to serve(display) a web page .
www: stands for World Wide Web and is a system of internet servers that support documents formatted in special way. Documents are formatted in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) which can link to other documents,audio and multimedia and graphics.
Domain Name : is name of server hosting website . There are many different types of domain names such us .com for commercial , .net for networks and ISPs(Internet Service Providers) ,.gov for government sites , .edu for educational institutes and .org for non-profit organizations . The most widely used one is .com one.
WYSIWYG: stands for what you see is what you get and applications which have WYSIWYG enable you to see what is displayed on screen exactly when you print document or publish it. There are many WYSIWYG editors which enable you to easily create a website and best and most popular ones include Microsoft® FrontPage® and Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX . If you know how to use Microsoft® Word® then you can use those two because they are more alike .