Website Basics-you should know if you are going to make your own website

Now lets clear the website basics

I am taking in mind that you know nothing about website development at all and i am not going to teach you any language or how to use a website designing tool or software .

1) Hosting space : If you are going to make a website then you need a place where you can store you files as you store your mp3s on your computer.

And those who are familiar with HTML would know that they need to store there files that they made on a space or place from where one can access them.

So the place where you store all your files is called HOSTING SERVER or Hosting Space and you need to buy it for you as you can't create your own computer as server easily and you just can't keep your own computer online always as you need power backup and regular data backup and a high bandwidth. So its better to buy a server .

(There is not always a need to buy a HOSTING SPACE for you , you can also get it for FREE follow the link to know how you can get hosting for free)

here is the link : Free Hosting Providing websites

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2) Domain name : domain name refer to the address to which your website respond like www.google.com is a domain name . You can also say that it is the name of your site so that when people put this name in Browser like internet explorer or google crome then it knows that now its time to access the data present on server to which the domain name redirects

For example when you type www.google.com then it will take you to the server where the data is present .

so you can either buy it or get some for free or you can also get some subdomain for free form the free hosting sites .

For Example : www.mail.google.com is a subdomain of google.com .

Here is the detail from where you can get free domains and sub domains : Get Free Domain name

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3) Control panel : control panel is same as you have control panel in windows . It contains all the options and apps that you can use.

a) like stats section to view the stats of you website .

b) backup wizard for taking the backup of your website.

c) pre-installed website designing tools

d) and scripts that you can use to make your website more better and bring professionalism to it.

It can also be named as c-panel or vista panel or windows panel but they all have same functions but might have some different features.

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4) Transferring Files to server : you can either transfer the files to your server through file manager present on your server or C-panel or Vista Panel . But there you have to select files which you want to upload one by one and if you have many files then it will consume a lot of time.

so its better that you use such a system that automatically transfer file from your computer automatically without even opening the control panel of your server or Hosting Space.

For that purpose we use File Zilla and to know much about it click here

most of the time either the files are stored in "www" folder and in it " public_htp" is present.

open www/public_htp/ to store your data or sometimes instead of " public_htp" you can find the folder named : "htdocs" so it will work same only the name has been changed .

use this path if the htdocs there : www/htdocs/