Building Your Own Website from the Ground Up

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What is a Website?

  • A website consists of one or more "pages" that may be accessed by a web browser.
  • A web browser is a piece of software that runs on your local computer but shows content from a website hosted on a web server.
  • A web server is a computer located at a particular address on the internet that is configured to respond to requests from web browsers and provide "pages" of content.
  • An "IP address" is an "Internet Protocol address," a unique number that identifies a computer on a network; the whole internet is nothing but a set of uniquely identified computers that can send packets of information to each other by means of their IP addresses.
  • A page is a handy metaphor for "everything we see on our computer screen in response to a request we made of a server through our browser." The metaphor must not be pressed too closely; the content displayed in a browser by a server can be much more subtle and dynamic than a piece of paper or a page in a book.
A browser sends requests to websites.
Websites return "pages" to browsers.

What is a Domain Name?

  • A Domain Name is a human-readable alias for an IP address that is used in a URL.
  • You may build a website without a domain name. You would then distribute the IP Address in your URLs for the site. If you want to have a domain name, you must purchase the rights to a name from a Domain Name Registrar.
  • A URL is a "Universal Resource Locator" (or "Uniform Resource Locator") that allows a browser to connect to a particular part ("page") of a website.
URL Protocol Separator Domain Name or IP Address Specific "page"
http://moleski.net/cac/Building_Your_Own_Website_from_the_Ground_Up http :// moleski.net /cac/Building_Your_Own_Website_from_the_Ground_Up
https://www.amazon.com/gp/css/homepage.html?ie=UTF8&ref_=topnav_ya https :// www.amazon.com /gp/css/homepage.html?ie=UTF8&ref_=topnav_ya
mailto:moleski@canisius.edu mailto : moleski@canisius.edu
ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/ ftp :// ftp.isc.org /usenet/news.announce.newgroups/
alt://altwww.net alt :// altwww.net

"While IPv4 allows 32 bits for an IP address, and therefore has 232 (4,294,967,296) possible addresses, IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, for an address space of 2128 (approximately 340 undecillion or 3.4×1038) addresses."[1]

Note well: In order to have your domain name point to your web server, you must correctly fill out the records for your ISP's name server!

How do I design a web page?

Static

  • HTML: HyperText Markup Language.
  • css: Cascading Style Sheets.
HTML editors:

Dynamic

Databases
Scripts
  • PHP: Personal Hypertext Processor
  • cgi: Common Gateway Interface
  • Perl: A general purpose unix scripting language.
  • javascript: Browser-side scripting language.
  • AJAX: Asynchronous Javascript and XML.]
    • XML: Extensible Markup Language used to manage datasets.

Content management systems

e-mail setup

ISPs

To develop your own website, you need to purchase storage and bandwidth from an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

References

  1. ↑ Wikipedia, "IPv6."

Links

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