About the internet
Away from all the details you do not need (there are plenty of
interesting details that I will have somewhere else, this page should just
give you the basic picture and only the information you need to go forward
in building your website, nevertheless you will find info you may consider
skipping, this is not advised however for the info here is a should know
for anyone planning to build a good website.
Lets look back in one line, The internet started with the ability to
move "files" around, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), The internet in a web browser requires a different protocol
however, this is called http (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), this protocol
is more advanced than FTP, yet you will probably want to transfer the
files that make up your website to the web server (the place where you
save your files for other people to see) via FTP.
So lets track the connection you made to
http://www.buildguide.net from the
minute you opened your browser to reading this, after that we will
have a few comments and then you know how the system works and you are
"ready to learn" how to make a website.
To get to this page you can either type the URL (Uniform Resource
Locator) which is the address of this page, picked it up from your
favorites, or followed a link from some other page, in your case you have
You have come directly to this page by either typing the page address (URL) in the address bar, or chose this from your favorits
, once your browser (Internet explorer or Netscape for example) knows where it wants to go, it sends a request to the server (the place where
this page is saved) and asks for the page, the request also holds allot of
other information, For example your browser will identify itself including
info on the browser, the operating system, etc... (in your
case
CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
) , it also tells the server how you got to the website, as well as many
other things, like for example your internet address (
38.103.63.59
), The server will now go look it up and see if the page you have requested is available, (Although a server is a name of a
computer that serves you pages, it is also the name of the software on that
computer machine that fetches the file from the file system), if the
server does not find the page, it will typically return a 404 error, The
number 404 indicates that the page was not found at the address you
specified, Now this is not the case here on this page, the page was found
so the server returned the code 200 meaning the page was found, but rather
than telling you this the browser starts showing you the page. To make a
website, you will first have to make the text pages that are the website
along with images and other things and simply upload them to a server on
the internet, but that is not all you need to know, we are just getting
started.
A bit more to that you need an address for your website either called a
domain name or a sub domain name or a folder under a domain A nice fact
is that people are now offering free hosting for many reasons you will
know later (promotion mainly), they also offer you a free address called a
sub domain, for how to chose an address for your website you can read the
section (Choosing a domain name)
later when you get there, that section will explain the variable that have
to do with choosing the name. Now you should be ready to get introduced
to the tools you need to start making your website,
BuildGuide.Net is meant to serve
as a step by step guide to building your website, so if you go through the
pages in sequence (by clicking next on the bottom of every page for
example) you will be able to get there at the end, You can always skip the
stuff you know. |
