How to publish your web site

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How to publish your web site
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Internet service provider the service that
gives you access to the Internet. Your ISP
has a bunch of large storage computers (servers)
that are linked up to the Internet and routers -
which are like train stations or traffic lights.
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YOUR COMPUTER COMCAST, AOL, ETC. SERVICE
S YOU GET
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The Internet lots of interconnected computers.
When you go to a web site your computer
your ISP.
calls
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When you look at Web sites you're actually
downloading a bunch of HTML files, pictures and
sounds to and from others servers to your
computer.
ISP's Servers
HOST
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Your own website files must be stored on your
ISPs servers so others on the Net will be able
to access your site
Server Farm
remotely.
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Most ISPs will give their users some storage
space on their servers for FREE. OR sign up
with a free Web page provider, like Tripod,
GeoCities, or Angelfire. Set up an account and
you'll have an automatic host server for your
site.
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Web hosts are companies that provide space on a
server they own for use by their clients (YOU
are the web designer)
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When you upload all of your HTML files from your
computer to your hosting account, you're
publishing your site. You must use a File
Manager Program FTP - FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL
to send a copy of your sites files from your
hard drive to the host server.
F T P
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Your host computer is connected to the Internet
so people who know your address can view your
site with their browser. (Firefox, Internet
Explorer, Safari, Opera) Later, you can change
any of your web site files and upload the
corrected files via FTP through your host.
HOST SERVER
F T P
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There are a ton of hosting services out there.
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What about your web sites name and address? You
can use the address your hosting service
automatically prescribes for you, like
www.comcast.net\SmithFamily Or www.aol.com\Persimm
ons
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OR you can pick your own name and address,
like www.thetechtrainer.org. Then you must use
a domain registrar to check whether that name is
available. If so, you pay to register your name.
You can pay the same hosting service for both
registering sites using server space but you
dont have to.