Unit 4: Website and HTML

Website :
A website (also written as web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is
identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Notable examples
are wikipedia.org, google.com, and amazon.com.
All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web. There are also private
websites that can only be accessed on a private network, such as a company's internal website for
its employees.
Websites are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, such as news, education,
commerce, entertainment, or social networking. Hyperlinking between web pages guides the
navigation of the site, which often starts with a home page.
Users can access websites on a range of devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets,
and smartphones. The app used on these devices is called a web browser.

Website is a location on web and is hosted on a web server. It is a set of related web
pages. It is accessed using Internet address known as Uniform Resource Locator

Static Websites
Static websites are also known as flat or stationary websites. They are loaded on the
client’s browser as exactly they are stored on the web server. Such websites contain
only static information. User can only read the information but can’t do any modification
or interact with the information.
Static websites are created using only HTML. Static websites are only used when the
information is no more required to be modified.

Dynamic Websites
Dynamic websites shows different information at different point of time. It is possible
to change a portion of a web page without loading the entire web page. It has been
made possible using Ajax technology.

Server-side dynamic web page

It is created by using server-side scripting. There are server-side scripting parameters

that determine how to assemble a new web page which also include setting up of more
client-side processing.

Client-side dynamic web page

It is processed using client side scripting such as javascript. And then passed in
to Document Object Model (DOM).

Blog
The term Blog is taken from web log. It is a kind of web site that is updated regularly,
with content about almost anything. In other words, blog is a Content Management
System (CMS), an easy way of publishing articles on the internet.
Blogging Terminologies
Blog
A type of website used to publish content on the internet.
Blogger
A person who writes for a blog.
Blogging
Writing for blogs is referred as blogging.
Blogosphere
A term is used to refer all the blogs on the web.
What to Blog about
Following discussion will help you to figure out what to write about and as well as what
to name your blog.
● Write what you know about. For example, if you have good computer
knowledge. You can write what you know about the subject.
● You can share your experience. You can also write what you gained from that
experience, what you learned.
● Detail your personal research.
● Share your memory of someone.
● Web designing has direct link to visual aspect of a web site. Effective web design
is necessary to communicate ideas effectively.

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● Web desinging is subset of web development. However these terms are used
interchangeably.
● Website development
● Web development refers to building website and deploying on the web. Web
development requires use of scripting languages both at the server end as well
as at client end.

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 Web hosting is a service of providing online space for storage of web pages. These
web pages are made available via World Wide Web. The companies which offer
website hosting are known as Web hosts.

The servers on which web site is hosted remain switched on 24 x7. These
servers are run by web hosting companies. Each server has its own IP address.
Since IP addresses are difficult to remember therefore, webmaster points their
domain name to the IP address of the server their website is stored on.
It is not possible to host your website on your local computer, to do so you would
have to leave your computer on 24 hours a day. This is not practical and
cheaper as well. This is where web hosting companies comes in.

S.N. Hosting Company

1. Blue Host

2. Go Daddy

3. Host Gator

4. just Host

5. Laughing Squid

6. Hivelocity

7. liquid Web

8. Media TempleServInt

9. Wired Tree

10. Wild West Domains

11. Wix
12. WIPL

13. Big Rock

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, which is the most widely used
language on Web to develop web pages. HTML was created by Berners-Lee in late
1991 but "HTML 2.0" was the first standard HTML specification which was published in
1995. HTML 4.01 was a major version of HTML and it was published in late 1999.
Though HTML 4.01 version is widely used but currently we are having HTML-5 version
which is an extension to HTML 4.01, and this version was published in 2012.

Why to Learn HTML?

Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of documents
like headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of scientific
information between researchers. Now, HTML is being widely used to format web
pages with the help of different tags available in HTML language.
HTML is a MUST for students and working professionals to become a great Software
Engineer specially when they are working in Web Development Domain. I will list down
some of the key advantages of learning HTML:
● Create Web site - You can create a website or customize an existing web
template if you know HTML well.
● Become a web designer - If you want to start a carrer as a professional web
designer, HTML and CSS designing is a must skill.
● Understand web - If you want to optimize your website, to boost its speed and
performance, it is good to know HTML to yield best results.
● Learn other languages - Once you understands the basic of HTML then other
related technologies like javascript, php, or angular are become easier to
understand.

Hello World using HTML.

Just to give you a little excitement about HTML, I'm going to give you a small
conventional HTML Hello World program, You can try it using Demo link.
Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>This is document title</title>
</head>
<body>
 <h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>Hello World!</p>
</body>
</html>

Applications of HTML
As mentioned before, HTML is one of the most widely used language over the web. I'm
going to list few of them here:
● Web pages development - HTML is used to create pages which are rendered
over the web. Almost every page of web is having html tags in it to render its
details in browser.
● Internet Navigation - HTML provides tags which are used to navigate from one
page to another and is heavily used in internet navigation.
● Responsive UI - HTML pages now-a-days works well on all platform, mobile,
tabs, desktop or laptops owing to responsive design strategy.
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● Offline support HTML pages once loaded can be made available offline on the
machine without any need of internet.
● Game development- HTML5 has native support for rich experience and is now
useful in gaming developent arena as well.