WWW
stands for the World Wide Web, which is a system of interlinked hypertext
documents which can be accessed via the internet, using a web browser. The purpose
of a web browser is to visually display images, videos, text or other multimedia
that are stored on either your computer or on websites. A person can navigate between them using the
web coding protocol hyperlinks, a basic link that can take you from one website
to another or images, videos etc. Other
web coding protocols include meta tags, the element which provides metadata about
a web page.
(Basically
like on twitter when you #something, the tag is what connects the webpage to a
search item.)
As well as web coding protocols there are common web coding languages such as HTML, XHTML, CS; HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language which is the predominant mark-up language for web pages, acting as the basic building-blocks of webpage’s. XHTML stands for eXtensible HyperText Markup Language and is an extension of HTML as it is a hybrid of it and XML. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets which is a form of style sheet language used to describe the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language. Most people use it to create the style of a web page that is written in HTML and XHTML.
The typical structure of a coded page begins with the following:
<html>
<body>
<p>Use this and you pretty much just made your first webpage.</p>
</body>
</html>
The
text between <html> and </html>
describes the web page; where as what is actually displayed on the webpage is the
text between <body> and </body>.
With the text
between <p> and </p>
being a paragraph.
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT
THE NESTING TAGS <p> </p> ARE CORRECT! If they’re not correct or
you have not closed the tag, the effect you had hoped for will not occur;
and/or appear where you don not want it to.
With the
advancements of technology a person doesn’t have to start from scratch in using
HTML to create their website they can get help by using WYSIWYG the acronym for
What You See Is What You Get software. This software constantly displays
onscreen the content (text, graphics etc.) exactly how it would appear online
throughout editing. Software’s that provide this are to name but a few
FrontPage, Dreamweaver and Expression Web.
To publish a web
site it needs to be stored on a web server and if it has a graphics featured on
it, it is ideal to use an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) which will act as a
middle man to transfer files from one host to another host over the Internet.
Once your website is
published you’ll need to promote it if you want people to see it of course there’s
the obvious, tell your friends, post it on your social networking site etc. Now
you could always use SEO and SMO, search engine optimization is the course of action
that will improve the visibility of your website in search engines. Where as social
media optimization is a type of internet promotion that uses social media
activity, hoping to attract unique visitors to website content.
E.g.
if you look at the right hand side of your facebook screen its full of advert;,
adverts you might usually ignore if it didn’t say: ... liked this. See which other
friends, liked this.
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