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Building Your First Website (Note: Hovering the mouse pointer over any underlined text will reveal the full meaning)
First Steps
Before we start let's just get rid of some of the basics that you'll need to know
Using your allocated ISP web space
No matter which ISP you are using (e.g. Freeserve, BT Internet etc) when you signed up you will have been allocated some space on the ISP's own computer or Server as it is more commonly known. The amount of space varies with the ISP but is generally sufficient for any home use.
When you are 'on-line' you are directly connected to your ISP's server via your modem. This is similar to being connected to another PC in an office network. There are a few significant differences however.
In an office network situation a user can generally 'see' parts of other user's disk space (those parts that have been designated as being shared) or other disk space on a central network server. By 'see' we mean that these parts appear as additional space or directories on the user's PC even though they are actually situated on other user's PCs or again on a central server. The point to remember is that the user can use this space to store or retrieve data in the same way as they store and retrieve data on their own PC even though it is located on a different PC.
Users can also store and retrieve data on their ISP's computer - but not so transparently. The ISP's computer may well be using a completely different operating system to yourself - as may the many thousands of other user's that are also connected to the ISP's computer.
The other point here is that there will indeed be many thousands of users signed onto the ISP's computer at the same time as yourself. The level of security is by necessity therefore much greater.
Some means needs to be found whereby all of these different computers, perhaps running many different operating systems, can communicate with the ISP server. Remember that Windows itself comes in many variations (Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, 2000, NT) but there are other operating systems such as Unix, Linux and MAC OS X which also need to be able to communicate with ISP Servers.
The means by which this is achieved is for all computers to use a common means of translation or protocol which allows them to communicate with each other and that protocol is known as TCP/IP.
In the first instance we will simply copy a file from your PC to the ISP Server and for this we use another protocol known as FTP
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