If you want to know how to publish your site to the world then read on as we set out below some basic information about web hosting that will get you started.
What Is A Web Host?
Essentially a web host is somebody who provides a place to store the files (pages) of your web site and makes them visible to the internet at large.
People can view these pages using a web browser, read the content, download files and generally interact in all the ways you have probably done on the internet up until now.
When you purchase a web hosting account you are literally buying disk space on the hosting company’s computer in which you store your web site.
Your site will consist of pages containing text, images or graphics that you use on those pages and any files that you might make available for download such as videos or ebooks.
You control which pages are visible and what content is on them by creating these pages in an HTML editor. This is special software that creates web pages and is, to all intents and purposes, nothing more than a word processor with extra functionality built in.
Examples of popular HTML editors are Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver both of which are programs you have to buy but there are free alternatives available on the web and don't forget your host might provide this as part of the hosting package, like Hostgator do.
In the same way that you store files on your PC you transfer files, the pages of your web site, up to your web site hosting
Using your standard internet connection you transmit the pages you have created in your editing program up to your hosting account.
The account will have a username and password which the better HTML editors will have functionality to incorporate and fill in automatically on transmission.
Hopefully, this article of basic information about web hosting for beginners has given you a basic grounding in the essentials.
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