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Introduction to Web Development

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University of California, Davis

Introduction to Web Development

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This course is designed to start you on a path toward future studies in web development and design, no matter how little experience or technical knowledge you currently have. The web is a very big place, and if you are the typical internet user, you probably visit several websites every day, whether for business, entertainment or education. But have you ever wondered how these websites actually work? How are they built? How do browsers, computers, and mobile devices interact with the web? What skills are necessary to build a website? With almost 1 billion websites now on the internet, the answers to these questions could be your first step toward a better understanding of the internet and developing a new set of internet skills. By the end of this course you’ll be able to describe the structure and functionality of the world wide web, create dynamic web pages using a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, apply essential programming language concepts when creating HTML forms, select an appropriate web hosting service, and publish your webpages for the world to see. Finally, you’ll be able to develop a working model for creating your own personal or business websites in the future and be fully prepared to take the next step in a more advanced web development or design course or specialization.

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Course Overview and Website Structure and Hosting

This first module provides an overview of how websites function, their structure, and the ins and outs of choosing a website name and selecting an online host to house your website. By the end of this module, you'll be able to: find and select a web hosting company; choose an effective domain name; use the host to manage your websites; and discuss how networks and the internet function at a high level.

Module 1 Introduction0:54

What is a Web Hosting Company?4:21

How to Find and Select a Web Hosting Company4:05

Naming a Website2:36

Website Name Registration4:26

Networks and the Internet3:59

First Look at a Website Control Panel4:08

Web Development Tools6:44

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Daniel Randall
Senior Architect at Composer Solutions and Instructor
UC Davis Division of Continuing and Professional Education

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Hi and welcome to the lesson.

Today, I'd like to discuss Web Hosting.

Web Hosting is a service that allows people to post websites.

Of course, people and businesses too.

Hosting services provide special equipment.

Support for that equipment, including 24 hours support and

technology most people don't have available.

This includes servers, which are really expensive high availability computers.

Networking equipment and dedicated network access.

There are different types of host.

So, we then provide free hosting.

Free hosting can be convenient, particularly when we're starting out, but

the problem with free hosting is usually the service provided

are of limited quality.

So when we're choosing a host, if we choose a free host,

we have to understand that we're probably going to get what we paid for.

Shared hosting, by far, the most common.

Share hosting is low cost.

Meaning, it's not particularly expensive.

In the US, it would probably be a few dollars a month, but the cost is kept

down, because the hosting service shares resources between different websites.

And then finally, dedicated hosting and this is higher cost, but it allows

us to have a dedicated, personalize service within a hosting center.

This is usually not necessary and

is reserved for large businesses who need this kind of service.

So for us, we are usually working with free or

more often shared low cost hosting services.

So, let's talk a little bit about what kind of services are provided.

So, a hosting service provides us Disk Space for Files.

Now as we learn later on the course, our websites are composed of many files.

This include HTML files and

images, both of which we'll discuss later in the course.

Email Accounts.

So for most hosting services, they will provide us Email Accounts.

For instance, if we have a service or

rather a business with a particular name say, Joe's Boat Service,

we can get Email Accounts that will include the name Joe's Boat Service or

any name that we chose for our website.

We get File Transfer Software, which is usually called FTP,

which stands for File Transfer Protocol and

this allows us to transfer files from our computers where we're working on a website

up to the hosting service, where the files can be displayed as part of our website.

Hosting services give us Management Software, which allows us to manipulate

files on our site and do other work on our site, such as starting the site and

stopping the site and making any modifications we want to do and

that we do this through the Management Software, the hosting service provides us.

Hosting services give us Reliable Internet.

Now many of us have Internet at home or perhaps we access internet on our phones,

on our smartphones or possibly at a library or university.

Well, hosting services have their own internet,

usually they have several sources of internet and they provide this to us

when we're using them as a hosting service to keep our website up and

available to anybody who might want to see it.

And finally, a hosting service gives us all of these things with economy.

Now, a few dollars a month for

a shared site is relatively inexpensive in most cases.

If we were to buy this equipment or to have a dedicated site to house this

equipment, it would typically cost thousands of dollars to accomplish.

So the few dollars a month or sometimes even cheaper,

if we pay for a year in advance is definitely a bargain.

So, I will talk to you next time.

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