How The Web Works Guide

Having a solid understanding of how the web works will help you create a better website.

Whether you want to promote your business, start an online business, create a website to display your artwork, or build a site for family and friends...

... your website represents

Do You Know These 3 Web Facts?

1. What it is? The web is an electronic network of websites. Each website consists of a set of web pages (digital documents), that is stored on a computer. The computers are connected to the internet along with millions of computers.


2. How does it connect? Web pages use inter-linked hypertext documents to communicate between reference points within itself and between it and other points on the internet.


3. How does it work? A web browser allows you to view Web pages that could contain text, videos, images and other media.

Internet Terminology

The internet is a bunch of server type computers communicating with one another -- they use a common language.

The web is an application that uses its own language in order to process hypertext documents -- it runs on the internet. However, in today's world the terms 'the web' and 'the net' are commonly meant to mean the same thing.

You can familiarize yourself with a little internet terminology here.

The Ultimate Homework Assignment...

This is one boy's documentation of the world of the web -- how to market online and succeed.

How Are Web Pages Handled?

1. You enter a URL into your browser’s address bar.
   
   
2. Computers, called name servers point your browser to other computers whose IP addresses are associated with the domain name found in the URL.
   
   
3. Your browser loads the requested page and any related components from the server where they are located.
   
   
4. Your browser formats the page for viewing based on the instructions in the CSS and HTML documents associated with the page you requested.

Summary

The world wide web (www), or simply as the web, is a network of websites -- or sites for short.

A website is just a collection of web pages stored on a computer -- usually a server.

Different people can see these web pages from any computer that’s connected to the internet.

The world wide web is just one of many internet services.

Anyone can build and publish a website at a very low cost and without having to have a lot of technical knowledge. Have fun watching your own progress – you’ll be proud of your own creations.

A Brief History of the Web

Look here to familiarize yourself with...

... a history of the world wide web.

Knowing how the web works is just part of the foundation of building a great website.

Your knowledge of various pieces of the how web works give you a better grasp of the big picture.

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