Choosing a web
hosting company The process of
choosing a company to host your website can seem daunting. There
is an endless list of providers. I ran a small web hosting company
from 1994 to 2000 (the Internet was in its infancy and Al Gore didn’t
know anything about it yet). Back then the only companies offering
web presence were really web designers and they were hoping to get work
by offering to host the site. I hope to assist you in your choices
by offering some tips that can help you head off some potential hazards.
You begin by picking a name for your site.
[more] A brief history of the Internet (article) The
U.S. Department of Defense laid the foundation of the Internet roughly 30 years
ago with a network called ARPANET. But the general public didn't use the
Internet much until after the development of the World Wide Web in the early
1990s. As recently as June 1993, there were only 130 Web sites. Now there are
millions. Here's a quick look at how it all came to be. [more]
What Are Domains?
Domains divide World Wide Web sites into categories based on the nature of their
owner, and they form part of a site's address, or uniform resource locator
(URL). Common top-level domains are:
•.com-For commercial enterprises. •.org-For nonprofit organizations. •.net-For
networks. •.edu-For educational institutions. •.gov-For government
organizations. •.mil-For military services. •.int-For organizations established
by international treaty. There are new extensions it seems daily. .tv,
.biz, .tt just to name a few. Most countries have their own extension as
well. [more]
What search engine should I use? No
search engine keeps track of all the content on the Internet. Even the major
search engines such as Google, Infoseek, Lycos, and Yahoo!—won't give you
everything. (Some studies indicate that even the top search engines find less
than half of what's really out there!) You can try several major search engines
by visiting an all-in-one search site, such as the all-in-one search site
accessible through Microsoft's home page. Here's a quick introduction to some of the major search engines:
[more]
Setting up Outlook
for
email (article)
This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook
2003® to work with your e-mail account. This tutorial focuses on setting
up Microsoft Outlook 2003, but these settings are similar in other
versions of Microsoft Outlook. You can set up previous versions of
Microsoft Outlook by using the settings in this tutorial.
[more]
Creating basic web pages (article) Web pages are very simple in concept. They are merely text based documents that
when viewed by a particular type of program, interpret the text as graphics and
motion. In the beginning, of the WWW revolution the only use for the Internet
was to transfer documents and run programs “long distance”. There were no “web
pages” as we know them today.
Around the time the general public became interested in the Internet, a company
called Netscape developed a “viewer” that could interpret certain types of
documents written in a special code called hyper text markup language or HTML.
Hypertext was being used widely in help files so this was not a new concept. It
was not however widely used in any other application. Thus the birth of the WWW
as we know it. [more] Dynamic DNS howto (article) Dynamic update proposes to provide a workable solution to the seemingly
trivial operation of exchanging data between two computers with known names both
visiting a foreign network where we don't know, care or trust the underlying
address. This feature has long been available for specific platforms, but a
general OS-agnostic method has been lacking. We now have a more or less ubiquitous availability of DHCP, increasing use of
TSIG in the DNS infrastructure and a renewed interest in getting DNSSEC
deployed. Therefore it seems possible to to, in a secure fashion, both publish
and consume locally available information via appropriate application protocols
(ftp, http, whatever). [more] Setting up a webserver in your home (link) ASP.NET based Open Source
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