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1- How The World Wide Web Works
Chances are that you’ve used the Web, perhaps even a lot. However, you might not have done a lot of thinking about how it works under the covers. In this first section, I’m going to describe the Web at a more theoretical level so that you can understand how it works as a platform.
2- Web Browsers
A web browser is the program you use to view pages and navigate the World Wide Web. A wide array of web browsers is available for just about every platform you can imagine. Most browsers are freeware or shareware (try before you buy) or have a lenient licensing policy.Microsoft Internet Explorer, [...]
3- Web Servers
To view and browse pages on the Web, all you need is a web browser. To publish pages on the Web, you need a web server.
A web server is the program that runs on a computer and is responsible for replying to web browser requests for files. You need a web server to [...]
4- Uniform Resource Locators
URL is a pointer to some bit of data on the Web, be it a web document, a file available via FTP, a posting on Usenet, or an email address. The URL provides a universal, consistent method for finding and accessing information.
In addition to typing URLs directly into your browser to go [...]
5- Introduction to HTML
Before we start in the writing web pages. You have to know what HTML can do and what it can’t do.
The World Wide Web is constructed from many millions of individual pages, and those pages are, in general written in Hypertext Markup Language, better known as HTML.
We use it to mark up our [...]
6- From HTML To XHTML
The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but also conforms to XML syntax.
Every webpage is made with HTML but after 2001 the W3C which the community that determine the standard for the web decided to discontinue HTML and [...]
7- Inside An HTML File
Pages written in HTML are plain text files (ASCII), which means that they contain no platform- or program-specific information. Any editor that supports text can read them.HTML files contain the following:
8- Creating Your First HTML Page
Open your text editor and type the following code. You don’t have to understand what any of it means at this point. This simple example is just to get you started.