What in the World Is the Web? Creating your own Web site will be less daunting if you understand the nature of the Internet and the World Wide Web. We explain. by Bob Weibel The World Wide Web is essentially a document delivery system running over the Internet network Connected to the Internet, Web browsing software running on your computer can find and fetch documents located on Internet Web servers anywhere in the world. Making a web site: what it takes to create "HTML" (Hyper Text Markup Language), universal document format of the World Wide Web. For a fee, many companies will "host" your Web site, maintaining it on Web server computers connected to the Internet. Webs? What are we, spiders? Well, sort of. Browsing the World Wide Web can snag you lots of information, more than you might expect. Plus, with your own Web site, you can get folks' attention from virtually anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day. You don't have to know much about the "Web," or how it works, to browse fairly successfully. But if you're planning to create a Web "site," you might find it less daunting if you understand what you're dealing with. With your own Web site, anyone with Web browser software and a connection to the Internet can find the Web pages you publish. Your site can be an advertisement for you or your organization. It can be an on-line newsletter, a catalog of goods or services, a customer support vehicle, or an employee or sales management system for remote offices. Think of what you're doing via brochures, catalogs, faxes, and forms, and chances are you can do a lot of it more efficiently over the Internet, and the World Wide Web, in particular. But what's the Web? Read on. | |
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