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Creating Web Sites
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 How much bandwidth/data transfer does my site use?
When your web hosting company says you are allowed 4,000MB of data transfer per month, they mean that you cannot transmit more than 4,000,000,000 bytes of data to your web site visitors without paying an additional fee. Some web hosts use the term "bandwidth" to mean the same thing, although this is...
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How should I license my work?
The Creative Commons organization offers a variety of licenses designed to help individuals and organizations share their work over the long haul, while retaining the specific rights they need to earn a living from it. These licenses are particularly well suited to writers, musicians, photographers,...
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I took over a web site. How do I change it?
If you have acquired an existing web site, or become newly responsible for it, you first need to understand the same basic issues that face someone creating a new site. See 'how do I set up a web site?' for that information.
Once you understand the fundamentals of webmastering, especially ...
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Is it legal to link to other web sites?
If you have serious legal concerns, consult a lawyer. Roughly speaking, the courts have held that: Linking from one web site to another in a normal way, so that the other page replaces the current page in the browser, like this: <a href="http://www.othersite.com/">Interesting Other Site</a&...
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Should I host my own web server?
Hosting it yourself is almost always a bad idea. The minimum cost of doing so is hundreds of dollars a month, if you want a reliable site that stays up 24 hours, 7 days a week, and provides professional quality speed to your visitors. You can't do it on a cable modem -- most cable ISPs forbid th...
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What are HTML and XHTML?
HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is a simple markup language used to make web pages. Although all modern word processors and many specialized tools can be used to make web pages without learning HTML at all, learning HTML itself is a useful way to learn more about the web and provides more contro...
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What are the top-level domains?
"Top-level domains" (TLDs) are the last part of every domain name. In other words, the top-level domains are .com, .org, .edu, .uk, .net, and so on. There are two types of top-level domains: two-letter country domains, such as .uk (United Kingdom), and three-letter domains, such as .com, .org, and ....
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What domain name should I choose for my site?
If your site is for business purposes, you should register a name in the .com domain, even if it is tough to find a good name that is still available. If Person A visits your web site and thinks "wow, that's pretty nifty," and says to person B, "wow, fiddlecats is a great web site," person B is ...
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What image file formats should I use?
Most web pages contain images. GIF, JPEG and PNG are the three major image file formats used in web pages. Other formats are not widely supported by all browsers on all systems, and so they are not suitable for use on the web. ICO files (files ending in .ico) are a special case, used in the browser&...
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What is a search engine?
Since no one is in charge of the Web as a whole, there is a business opportunity for anyone to create an index of its contents and an interface for searching that index. Such interfaces are known as search engines. Typically the user will type in a few words that relate to what he or she is looking ...
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What is a web browser?
When you sit down and look at web pages, you are using a web browser. This is the piece of software that communicates with web servers for you via the HTTP protocol, translates HTML pages and image data into a nicely formatted on-screen display, and presents this information to your eyeballs -- or t...
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What is a web server?
Web servers are the computers that actually run web sites. The term "web server" also refers to the piece of software that runs on those computers, accepting connections from web browsers and delivering web pages and other files to them, as well as processing form submissions. The most common web s...
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What is HTTP?
In order to fetch a web page for you, your web browser must "talk" to a web server somewhere else. When web browsers talk to web servers, they speak a language known as HTTP, which stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. This language is actually very simple and understandable and is not difficult f...
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What screen resolution should I design for?
Screen resolutions among web users is generally as follows: A small majority of users have 1024x768 and higher. A large minority have 800x600. A very small and shrinking number, 1%, have 640x480. These numbers do not include those who browse using web appliances. It is important to note that users c...
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What sites link to my site?
There are two ways to find this information: via Google, and via the web server statistics reports that your web hosting company may be providing for you.
Method one: GoogleOne way to discover this information is via a Google search. If you visit www.google.com and enter the following: link:http...
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What web browsers should I design for?
In an ideal world, you don't have to design to any specific web browser. XHTML, cascading style sheets and other World Wide Web Consortium standards allow you to specify exactly how your site should look and behave. Following standards allows you to ensure that your pages will not be "locked in"...
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Who controls the World Wide Web?
The short answer: no one. The TCP/IP protocol on which all Internet protocols are based was designed for military use and can continue to operate even if many systems are destroyed. The long answer: the whois database that ultimately determines who holds what domain name for the .com and .net domain...
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Why do some elements end with /> in XHTML pages?
Every XHTML element has to be closed so that the parser doesn't have to have special knowledge of each element in order to properly parse it. For instance, before XHTML, a naive parser might have thought that: <br> Meant that a br "block" had been opened, and that parser might wait around ...
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Why won't my audio and video files play properly?
When you are linking to audio and video files and they do not play properly, or they do not play properly for all browsers, there are several possible explanations. The correct solution depends on the type of problem your visitors are having. Mime Type ProblemsFirst, if the audio or video file opens...
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