Chapter 4. Getting Connected: A Trip to Webville

Web pages are a dish best served on the Internet. So far you’ve only created HTML pages that live on your own computer. You’ve also only linked to pages that are on your own computer. We’re about to change all that. In this chapter we’ll encourage you to get those web pages on the Internet where all your friends, fans, and customers can actually see them. We’ll also reveal the mysteries of linking to other pages by cracking the code of the h, t, t, p, :, /, /, w, w, w. So, gather your belongings; our next stop is Webville.
WARNING: once you get to Webville, you may never come back. Send us a postcard.

Getting Starbuzz (or yourself) onto the Web
You’re closer to getting Starbuzz—or even better, your own site—on the Web than you might think. All you need to do is find a “web hosting company” (we’ll call this a “hosting company” from now on) to host your pages on their servers, and then copy your pages from your computer to one of those servers.
Of course it helps to understand how your local folders are going to “map” to the server’s folders, and once you put your pages on the server, how you point a browser to them. But we’ll get to all that. For now, let’s talk about getting you on the Web. Here’s what you’re going to need to do:
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