| What is a website? | |
| My name is
Marilyn. I am the webmaster for two websites (domains): One is the Lifetime Learners domain: www.lifetimelearners.org. The other is my personal domain: www.techforecast.com. |
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| A website is a
collection of browser-readable files that are prepared on the
webmaster's computer, then uploaded to a server computer somewhere in
cyberspace. The files that comprise the Lifetime Learners website and the techforecast website reside on my home computer. Here is what the LLI files look like in the Windows Explorer window on my home computer. They are in a folder named "Lifetime." Note the file named index.htm. By convention, the "home page" of any website is named index.htm. The hyperlinks on website pages are references to other files, inside or outside this website. |
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| If these Lifetime
Learners files
existed only on my personal computer, no one without access to that
computer could see them. So we rent space on an Internet-connected
server-computer. Since our web-host is a
Canadian company (Softcom), the server might be in Canada, but we don't
know where it is. When the LLI website was launched, all of our website files were uploaded to the server. Now, updates are uploaded regularly. If we could look at the server computer's Explorer window, we would see the same folders and files that we see on my personal computer. (Large companies have thousands of files located on many servers worldwide.) |
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The page you are looking at now, and all other lesson pages, are part of
the
techforecast website. See at left that on my personal computer, there is a folder for "Lifetime" (the LLI website) and a folder for "techforecast." Under techforecast, there is a folder called "tutorials." Under that, a folder called "images." The picture on the left is in the images folder. The techforecast files are uploaded regularly to the host computer. With hyperlinks, anyone can go back and forth between the LLI and techforecast websites, and to websites anywhere in the world. |