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Steps of Publishing A Website

The document discusses the process of publishing a webpage. It defines a webpage as a single page within a website, which is a collection of interconnected webpages. It outlines important reasons for publishing a webpage, such as commercial, educational, or entertainment purposes. The document then explains the key steps and components involved in transferring webpages to a web server in order to make them accessible online, including using an FTP program and Internet Service Provider (ISP) for hosting the website.

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Steps of Publishing A Website

The document discusses the process of publishing a webpage. It defines a webpage as a single page within a website, which is a collection of interconnected webpages. It outlines important reasons for publishing a webpage, such as commercial, educational, or entertainment purposes. The document then explains the key steps and components involved in transferring webpages to a web server in order to make them accessible online, including using an FTP program and Internet Service Provider (ISP) for hosting the website.

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PUBLISHING WEBPAGES

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Area coverage:
1. Explain the concept of publishing a webpage.
2. Outline the importance of publishing a webpage.
3. Distinguish between webpage and websites.
4. Explain the procedure of transferring WebPages to
the web server.
5. Access information on a website.

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Explain the concept of publishing a
webpage.
• To publish your web site, you move the files
(pages and graphics files) to the server you are
using. Once your files are on the server, they
are "on the net" and are available to others.
• You will use an FTP(File transfer protocol)
program e.g Ipswitch,File Zila etc.

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Outline the importance of publishing a
webpage.
• The importnace can be one or more of the
following:
– Commercial
– Educatıonal
– Entertainment
– Publicity
– etc

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Distinguish between webpage and
websites.
• A website is a collection of hyperlinked
WebPages.

• The web pages hold a more specific narrowed


down form of information or, a sıngle page in
a web site.

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4. Explain the procedure of transferring
WebPages to the web server.

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1. To let others view your work, you must
publish your web site.

2. To publish your work, you must copy your


site to a web server.
3. Your own PC can act as a web server if it is
connected to a network.
4. Most common is to use an Internet Service
Provider (ISP).

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Essential Requirements before
Publishing:

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The World Wide Web
• The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW
and commonly known as the Web, is a system
of interlinked hypertext documents accessed
via the Internet.

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The web browser
• Software that enables us to view web pages
that may contain text, images, videos, and
other multimedia and navigate between them
by using hyperlinks.
• Examples: Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari,
Netscape Navigator, and Konqueror,Internet
Explorer, Netcafe and Mozilla Firefox.

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Web servers

• web servers help to store web page files


examples: Apache, Microsoft Internet
Information Server.

• Computers reading the web pages are called


web clients.

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Web address
• A browser fetches a page from a web server
by a request.
• A request is a standard HTTP request
containing a page address.
• An address may look like this:
http://www.someone.com/page.htm.

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Display instructions

• All web pages contain instructions for display


• The browser displays the page by reading
these instructions.
• The most common display instructions are
called HTML tags.
• HTML tags look like this <p>This is a
Paragraph</p>.

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Internet Service Provider(ISP)
• ISP stands for Internet Service Provider.They
provide:
– Internet services.
– web hosting(storing your web site on a public server).
– email services.
– domain name registration.

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Web server

Web server Client computer

Client computer

Client computer Web server

Client computer
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Domain Name
• A name that identifies one or more IP(Internet
protocol) addresses.
Domain names are used in URLs to
identify particular Web pages.
Example, in the URL(Uniform Resource locator)
http://www.canossa.com/index.html, the domain
name is canossa.com.

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Examples of Domain extensions:
• gov - Government agencies
• edu - Educational institutions
• org - Organizations (nonprofit)
• mil - Military
• com - commercial business
• net - Network organizations
• tz - Tanzania

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IP Address
• An identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP
network.
• Networks using the TCP/IP protocol route messages
based on the IP address of the destination.
• The format of an IP address is a 32-bit numeric
address written as four numbers separated by
periods. Each number can be zero to 255. For
example, 1.160.10.240 could be an IP address.

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Web Host
• A web host provider is a company who rents
out web space and bandwidth to those who
wish to publish a web site.
• The web host gives its customer an account,
which can be used to upload HTML
documents, PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor)
scripts, graphics, and more.

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Uploading
• Uploading usually refers to copying files from
a smaller peripheral system to a larger central
system.
– For example, cell phone to a personal computer.
Personal computer to a central server.

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Downloading
• Downloading refers to the transfer of data
from a central system to a smaller system. For
example, the same files uploaded to the
server above might be downloaded for
viewing by another user

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Home work
1. Distinguish between webpage and websites.
2. Outline the importance of publishing a
webpage

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END!!!

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