How does the Web work? How do you make your own web site?
What is a Web site host? What is an Internet service provider (ISP)?
What is the world Wide Web?
WWW is a computer network all over the world.
All computers in the WEB can communicate with each other.
All computers use a communication standard called HTTP.
How does WWW work?
Web information is stored in a document called a Web page.
A Web page is a file that is stored on a computer called a Web server.
A computer that reads a Web page can be called a Web client.
The Web Client views the page through a program called a Web browser.
Popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
How does a browser read a Web page?
A browser can read a page from a Web server through a request.
A request is a standard HTTP request that contains a page address.
The address looks something like this: http://www.someone.com/page.htm.
How does a browser display a Web page?
All pages contain instructions for display.
The browser displays the page by reading these instructions.
The most commonly used real-world directives are HTML tags.
HTML tags are similar to this: <p>this is a paragraph</p>
If you need to learn more about HTML, please visit our HTML tutorial.
What is a WEB server?
The collection of all your pages is called a Web site.
To get someone to see your page, you have to publish the site.
You must copy the Web site to a Web server to complete publishing to the site.
If your PC is connected to the network, you can also treat it as a Web server.
Most of the cases are using web hosts provided by the ISP.
What is an ISP?
An ISP refers to an Internet service provider.
ISPs can provide Internet services.
The most common Internet service is the Web site host.
The web hosting service can store your Web site on a common server.
Web site hosting services typically include domain name registration services.
Summarize
If you want others to see your site, you must copy the site to a public server. Even if you can use your own PC to do a Web server, the most common approach is to store your Web site through your ISP.
Also included in the web hosting solution are domain name registration and standard e-mail services.
You can read more about domain name registration, e-mail, and other services in the following sections.
