Introduction
How to Create a Website

This tutorial explains how to create a website, deploy it on a server computer and make it visible on the World Wide Web.  It describes two possible approaches: a simple method and a more complex approach that provides greater flexibility and functionality.  The tutorial explains what software and hardware components are required on your personal computer and on the server.  It also explains how to published the site to a server and make it accessible to people around the world via a virtual domain name.

The diagram above illustrates the personal computer from which the website is built and the server computer that will host the site.  Connecting the two, is the World Wide Web or Internet: a series of hundreds of thousands of computers (the circles), each connected to the global network (arrows) and uniquely identified by an IP Address.

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