WORLD WIDE WEB

Introduction to World Wide Web (WWW) – Part 3

Many people do not buy a domain because they only have a private website for practice or fun. In that case you can get your website live on the World Wide Web by using any free hosting service that lets you to make what is called sub-domain. A Sub-domain is a domain that is a part of a different domain. So if ABC.com offered sub-domain hosting you will get an address like- www.ABC.com/your website/ or it could be like- http://your website.ABC.com.

Remarkable point is that your website domain is actually a part of a parent domain, in that case ABC.com. You don’t have to buy a domain name, doing it this way you do not to have pay for hosting.  This is almost appropriate for fun or projects for your websites.

Transferring website files on the server:

After registering your domain name and hosting service in place, the final step is to upload the site on the server. You have to transfer your website to the server of your host using a FTP program. It is a sort of software that is applied to transfer files from one computer to another computer over the Internet. FTP stands for: File Transfer Protocol; it just means that this is a way of transferring files. There are a number of free FTP programs you can apply to transfer your files. Several web design programs and HTML editors have FTP capabilities built in.

This is the basic introduction to World Wide Web (WWW). I have narrated more information in Part-1 & Part-2.