3 Basics To Your Own
Web Site
If you're lost and don't know where to
begin, this page will help make the process less daunting.
1) Web Pages -
Without web pages, if someone were to go to your
web site, they would get an error
message automatically generated by
the server where the web pages are supposed to be.
Web pages contain the code that allows your web site to be displayed in
a remote computers
browser. Except for the words displayed on the screen, most of what's
contained in a web page are
special codes that tell the browser where to position words, Graphics,
spaces, colors and everything else shown
on your screen. The pictures and Graphics you view on a web site are not
actually part of the web page.
The page simply contains code that tells the web browser where to find
the pictures and how to display them.
2) Host Provider - Once you have web pages, you
need a web server to put your pages on.
The web server has to be an "always on/high
speed" Internet connected computer. Furthermore, the computer
will need a "Static" ip address.
The average home computer is not suitable
for hosting web sites for the above reasons and many others.
The host provider supplies dedicated 24/7 computers that are
always on,
serving your web pages. These computers use high speed Internet
connections with "Static" addresses so that
your web pages are in the same place each time a visitor tries to get to
your site. Host providers are responsible for the Internet connection, machines
that serve your web site and support for helping you configure you web
site to work and keep it running.
3) Domain Name Registration -
Without Domain name registration, people who wanted to visit your site
would have
to type in a long number like 192.168.1.255 rather than
"www.website.com" each time they wanted to visit your web site.
Getting a domain name should be the first thing you do.
Computers on the internet find each other through these long series of
numbers. Because humans have a harder time
remembering long numbers rather than names, computers on the internet
convert the name you type in your browser
to a number so that your web site can be found.
This is where Domain registration comes in.
The domain is your web site location in words. For instance, our domain
is k-2computers.com.
Your home page is the front door for your domain. Once people reach
your home page,
links within the page allow them to get to the other pages in your
domain. Like your "Contact" page.
Typically, you can obtain domain and hosting services from the same
company.
The expenses to run a web site are mostly dependent on your hosting costs.
Web page design is a one time charge, domain registration is a very
small fee and should be the same where ever you go.
Your hosting costs are the most expensive part of web site operation and
you should shop around.
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