Let's get a few common Internet phrases defined before we get too far into
this.
URL: Uniform Resource Locator -- this is the address of a website,
the www.yourname.com bit. It's, technically, a way of specifying the resource
of a page, but we don't need to get into that here.
HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language -- what we're all on about
here.
HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol -- "this is the protocol
used to transfer information between the client and server computer"
Instant HTML. Although this bit is kinda
important for the operation of the internet, you don't really need to know
how it works right now so just continue thinking of it as the prefix for
all web adresses.
FTP: File Transfer Protocol -- FTPing means transferring your
site's files from your hard drive, to the hard drive of your server.
That's about all the annoying acronyms we need to cover here. On to the fun
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