To create a web site you need three things:
Web Server A machine connected to the Internet with the ability to host web pages.
In order to have a web site you need a web server. This is a machine that is specially set up to be connected to the Internet and can serve the web pages that are asked of it. There are many for free or for pay sites out on the Internet that will happily host your pages, but in this case the computer science department has a machine that will hold your pages at least for the duration of this course and perhaps longer. The host name of the server that is hosting your webpage is storm.cis.fordham.edu.
A set of "web pages" You create web pages by creating a text file following an underlying format called HTML(HyperText Markup Language). Go ahead and select the View menu right in your web browser and then select Page Source beneath it. A box should open that should have what at first to appear to be gibberish but if you look closely has the very content that you are reading now. Basically all of the gibberish is defining all the formatting that is going on in the document. Your instructor may explain more about this but for today you won't need to worry about the details much.
The URL(Universal Resource Locator) for your webpage is
http://storm.cis.fordham.edu/~your_account
Whenever someone types this into a web browser, the browser sents a request to the server, asking for the a file named index.html under your public_html folder (where all files related to your web pages should be located).A program within which to create the web documents
In this project, we will use basic text file editor to directly created HTML content, which will allow us to learn the nuts and bolts of HTML.There are many WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) programs for Web site development, for example, DreamWeaver, FrontPage, and even MS Word. With any of these programs you just type and format as you would a normal document and the HTML will be created automatically for you.
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