1.2 Creating a Website
A website is a collection of related web pages that are normally stored on a single web server computer. A web server is a computer system that enables users to access web pages stored on the web server’s computer. The term “web server” can refer to the web page-accessing software that runs on the computer, or it can refer to the computer itself.
To create a website, you’ll need these things: (1) a text editor, (2) an upload/publishing tool, (3) a web hosting service, and (4) a browser. We’ll describe them in the upcoming paragraphs.
Text Editors
There are many different text editors, with varying degrees of functionality. Microsoft’s Notepad is free and provides no special web functionality. To use it, the web developer ...
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