What
exactly is a website?
What you are looking at right now is a webpage.
Basically any page that is viewable through your web browser is a
web page. You can also call that one page a website,
but more typically a website is
a collection of web pages linked together with hyperlinks. With all
of this, you would also want a Domain Name.
What’s
a
Domain Name?
I have some website files that were uploaded to my hosting providers computers
so it’s on the internet for people to see. That website was assigned a numeric
address which is called an IP Address. It tells the world where my website files
are located.
It looks like this: 67.199.77.91
For an internet visitor to view my website, they would have to type in the web
address into their browser address bar like this: http://67.199.77.91
Can you image trying to have people remember all those numbers and that is just
one website.
So people register Domain Names to use for their website instead of ip
addresses. For example, cidicon.com is a domain name and the web hosting
provider makes sure that when that domain name is typed into a browser address
bar, the web visitor is brought to the Cidicon website that is located at the
address 67.199.77.91
So cidicon.com
is the
Domain Name
but what you SEE at
http://www.cidicon.com is the Website.
It costs less than $10 per year to
register a domain name!
What’s a
Hosting
Account/What is Hosting?
When you have webpages and a website,
those web pages have to be on a computer at a company that
provides website hosting. If you have the webpages just
sitting on your computer at home, no one can see them except
you. There are thousands of companies that sell website
hosting and all have different features, services and ways
of accessing your website. (My favorite
hosting provider is GoDaddy)
These companies computers are called
Servers which are computers that provides services used by
other computers. In this case, it would be called a “Web
Server” because they provide website services.
You MUST have a Website Hosting account
with a company and upload your website files onto that
server in order for your website to be seen by the world.
What’s
a hyperlink?
(Also called Link)
A hyperlink is when you have a word, words
or pictures that when clicked upon, you are taken to another web
page or website. Normally, you can tell something is a hyperlink
because the word(s) are underlined and/or a different color than the
rest of the words on the page.
These words are underlined and a different
color. If you click on the words, you will be taken to a
different page.
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