1.2 Website Basics
Before talking about how we build websites, it’s important to understand what a website is and how it operates.
When we open our browser and enter a URL such as http://google.com, our computer uses HTTP (the scheme in the URL) to talk to the computer (or set of computers) found at the google.com domain. The goal of this computer is to give us information that we are asking for.
A website is a resource stored on a server. A server is simply a computer whose job is to provide a resource (a website in this case) or service and serve it to you. A website comprises one or more webpages. A webpage is a discrete entity that contains data. The core functionality of a website is to send these webpages to people who ask for them. To ...
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