Building Your Own Website from the Ground Up

Definition of terms:

• Website
• Browser
• Server

What is a Domain Name?

• URL
• DNS
• IP address
  • IPv4--static vs. dynamic
  • IPv6

"While IPv4 allows 32 bits for an IP address, and therefore has 232 (4,294,967,296) possible addresses, IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, for an address space of 2128 (approximately 340 undecillion or 3.4×1038) addresses."

What is a web page?

Static

• HTML
• css

HTML editors:

• Dreamweaver
• Bluefish

Dynamic

• Database
• Scripts

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ISPs

GoDaddy

Slicehost

Amazon Web Services