How to: Setup a Website

This is Part 2 of our Netcorps workshop.

Background - Phone Book vs DNS

Phone book => DNS (Domain Name Server/Service/System)

Person’s name in a phone book => Domain Name in a DNS (eg. Armstrong | google.ca)

Person’s address in a phone book => IP Address in a DNS (eg. 88 1st Ave, the Moon | 66.102.7.104)

Look in phone book for a person’s name and find person’s address => Ping ~ look in DNS for a domain name and find IP address (eg. Start > Run > type cmd > type ping google.ca to find the IP address of google.ca)

Give address to taxi driver to go visit person’s home => Type domain name in browser to view website content.

Setup Process

1. Purchase web space from a Web Hosting Provider, so that you have somewhere to put your web pages (aka on their Web Server).

   

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2. Purchase domain name from a Domain Name Registrar.
   ICDSoft offers domain names for $5 USD.
3. Point domain name to web space by giving the Domain Name Registrar your IP address.
4. Create web pages in HTML, XML, PHP, etc.
5. Upload web pages via FTP onto Web Server.
   Free FTP software from www.download.com > Advanced Search > License = Free > type FTP )
6. View web pages with browser.
   When users go to www.mywebsite.com, they will see your index.html or index.php page. If you created a folder and placed a new page in it, then you will see it at www.mywebsite.com/newfolder/newpage.html.