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Author: Scott_Burkett, Contributing Editor
| Above, you will see the two major components of a URL. There are more advanced examples, but this will suffice for our lessons. The first, is the type of service. Typically, this is "http", which stands for the Hypertext Transport Protocol. There's that word again - "hypertext". You should now understand why you put "http" in front of all the web sites you surf to - its because you are requesting some information that is in hypertext format, so your computer and the server on the other end need to both talk the same language. In this case, the hypertext transport protocol is the language!
The fully qualified domain name should be fairly explanatory at this point. You are requesting information from whatever computer (or host, remember?) is listed in the URL (in this case, you are requesting data from the machine called www.wetcanvas.com). URLs can be more specific. The URL above will take you to whatever the "default" document is on the remote machine. In the case of WetCanvas!, and with most sites, it will take you to our "home" page, or our main starting point for visitors. However, let's say you wanted to jump straight to the WetCanvas! forums. Then you would use a URL of: http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums. Whoa, Scott, how did you know that? Easy, when you are at a page that you really enjoy, just look in your browser's "location" box (located toward the top of your browser window). You will see the current URL listed there! If you are a member of WC! Hosting, the URL to your home page will be something similar to: http://membername.wetcanvas.com
where membername is the unique membername assigned to you when you joined. |
| Do I have to go through my ISP to have my own web site?
First, for those that may not be familiar with the term, an ISP is an Internet Service Provider. This is the company that provides you with dial-up access to the Internet. Examples are Earthlink, AOL, etc. While most folks need an ISP to be able to get online, your website does not have to be located within your ISPs domain. Members of the WetCanvas! community live all over the world, and have ISPs in their local areas. However, their web sites can be located on our own servers. |
| Phew! That was a pretty long article. How do you feel? Well, don't worry. Go back through the article above to clarify any immediate questions, and post in the computers/technology forum for artists for the tough ones.
In future articles, I hope to cover other basic topics, such as HTML, web page design, and of course, more specifics on how to work with the WC! Hosting tools to design, build, and publish your own web site. |
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Scott Burkett is the founder and editor of WetCanvas! An avid artist, history buff, and veteran information technology executive, he founded the wetcanvas.com site in hopes to leverage technology to provide a true community site for visual artists. |
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