Chapter 2 Creating a Website

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In the previous chapter, you examined how to use Composer to create your first web page. After creating the web page, you saved the web page to a folder on your computer. While storing the web page on your computer allows you to easily update the web page at some time in the future, it does not permit others to view your web page via a web browser. That is, when the web page is stored just on your computer, you are the only person who can view it.

To share a web page with the world, you need to create a website.

A website is a computer with a permanent connection to the Internet whose web pages are accessible to anyone ...

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