Host Your Dream Web Site

Host Your Dream Web Site

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The popularity and ease of availability of Internet has cast its spell directly onto website designing and related activities. The humane desire of publishing personal charismas on the web has gained immense popularity. By the rule of nature popularity comes hand in glove with frauds. Web design is therefore no way an exception. Being lured by the attraction of money people and organizations sometimes come up even with some unrealistic commitments just to take advantages of your ignorance. As the intellectual conspiracies become much more dangerous and adverse you fail to resist yourself from the attractive terminologies which are used by them.

So, we do feel that literacy can enlighten people around preventing them from this type of fraudulency. Our continuous efforts to make you more knowledgeable have led to this series of articles, which we believe to be highly beneficial for all people at large.

Basic Jargons

Let us try to understand the entire web design scenario through a systematic approach. First of all, you must know, that you need a unique identifier in the cyberspace just like your postal address. This is called the Domain Name. You select a name of your choice, check the availability and book the domain. If somebody has already occupied your desired domain you need to modify it a bit in order to keep it unique keeping the vision/ ideology in tact. There are several extensions and restrictions, which we shall discuss later. Once you book the domain you need some web space where your web pages will reside and at which the domain name will point to. This is something like staying in a particular place on the earth and communicating with another place for attention. This space in the cyber world is called the Server space. The obvious question comes up, whether you can host your website in your own Computer. Definitely yes, but can you guarantee a 24x7 uptime of your Computer? Remember your website may be visited by people from any corner of the world as per their convenient time zone. In reality there are many companies, which allow you to share their hard disk space on a rental basis. Even there are sites like Yahoo Geocities, who provide hosting free of cost. The vendors offer you generally two types of hosting services namely dedicated and shared, which will be explored later. Nevertheless, the business ethics ensure privacy of your files and contents in the hosted server.

Web Design

You have got hundreds of options for designing your Web Pages. It can be simple pages designed by you or you can even take help of various web designing templates available both free and paid over the Internet. You can use simple tools like FrontPage or Dream Weaver to build your website. The selection of the right tool depends upon your own objective and the presentation style you are looking for. You can also hire a professional group, but it all depends upon your taste and requirement. Do you know that you can even generate web pages from MS Word or MS Excel?

Domain and Hosting

Once you have built your web pages, you need to upload them to the specific server, so that people can view your vision/ objectives in an elaborate manner. Once you book the domain name, the agent or the service provider gives you a user-friendly, wizard based Control Panel for managing your domain. As Control Panel gives one the real control over his domain it deserves a very high level of security and can be only accessed through the right combination of valid username and password. You cannot only transfer or park your domain from control panel but also manage various services like Changing of A-Records or MS Records, URL Forwarding etc. If you book the domain name and the server space from the same service provider, then managing your entire hosting activities become a cake walk, but if two are from two different vendors, then all these jargons come into the picture, but don't worry! The technology marvels have made it a much simpler task for you. Let us site an example, if you change the A-Record of your domain to another valid IP address, your domain will search for the pages in the changed IP Address instead of the default one.

Control Panel - your key

Control Panel allows you to create email-ids of your choice and the number of such email-ids depends upon the package or contract that you have purchased. But most importantly, it provides you the username and password for FTP (File Transfer Protocol). FTP is a must to upload or download file to or from the server respectively. You have got many wizard based FTP tools readily available. The list starts with WS Ftp, Cute Ftp, ACE Ftp, and Smart Ftp. The options are really infinite. You can also accomplish the same job just from the command prompt of your windows operating system. However, once you complete the entire process, then only people can browse your site, the way you are browsing this article right now.