Web

Accessing content through the Web consists of communication between a Web browser client and a Web server utilizing HTTP (Hyper Text transfer Protocol) (Fig. 1)

Fig.1 Web Overview

One does not need to have a business to own a website designed for one. Many people make additional income and even lucrative salaries from having personal websites. Blogs or journals are an excellent means of expressing one’s ideas or thoughts for profit. If one has access to a computer and the ability to write, one can have a great opportunity generate profit through ad placements on the site. Listed below are some of the pay-per-click revenue providers that offer tracking code that can easily be implemented to one’s web page by a skilled web designer or even copied and pasted by newbie’s.

Over the last few years there has been a rapid growth in the number of companies that offer web-hosting services. This has resulted in making the selection of the right web-hosting company quite a daunting task. Here are the top 10 features that you should consider when choosing the best web-hosting firm to meet your specific needs.

Most companies today will acknowledge the importance of doing business online and the influential role a website can play in their overall success. What exactly are the advantages of owning a website though and in what ways can having one actually improve your business? When done properly, and professionally, here are a few of the best answers:-

A Control panel in web hosting refers to the interface provided by the hosting company for the maintenance and monitoring of the hosted website.

Some of the commonly available modules in most control panels:

·         Access to server logs.

·         Details of available and used webspace and bandwidth.

·         Email account configuration.

·         Maintaining FTP users’ accounts.

·         Managing database.

·         Visitor statistics using web log analysis software.

·         Web based file manager.

Every hosting account has a certain allotment of disk space. The disk space is used to hold all the files which make up the web site – HTML files, graphics, scripts, and multi-media content. Usually the more expensive the hosting packages the more disk space and the more bandwidth you receive.

More than 128 million domain names have been registered worldwide and thousands of new ones are added every day. That is why it might be hard for new users to get the name they really like for their website. One should not get discouraged from this fact, but one should try to be creative!

A name that identifies one or more IP addresses. For example, the domain name microsoft.com represents about a dozen IP addresses. Domain names are used in URLs to identify particular Web pages. For example, in the URL http://www.webhostplazza.com/, the domain name is webhostplazza.com.

Most hosting companies offer a variety of bandwidth options in their plans. So exactly what is bandwidth as it relates to web hosting? Put simply, bandwidth is the amount of traffic that is allowed to occur between the web site and the rest of the Internet. The amount of bandwidth a hosting company can provide is determined by their network connections, both internal to their data center and external to the public Internet. A very simple analogy to use to understand bandwidth and traffic is to think of highways and cars. Bandwidth is the number of lanes on the highway and traffic is the number of cars on the highway. If one is the only car on a highway, one can travel very quickly. If one is stuck in the middle of rush hour, one may travel very slowly since all of the lanes are being used up.

If one is doing business on the Internet, accepting payment through the website is an absolute must. If one is not processing orders online, one is losing a great deal of money in lost sales. Studies have shown, one can increase the online sales by up to 400% simply by accepting credit cards. With today's technology, processing the customer orders online can be as simple as pasting a code within the web page HTML.

Fantastico is a commercial script library that automates the installation of web applications to a website. These scripts are executed from the administration area of a website control panel such as cPanel. Fantastico's web site claims that they are installed on ten thousand servers, with a million users worldwide, which would make it the leading product of its type

A shopping cart is a software application that typically runs on the computer where your Web site is located (the Web server), and allows one’s customers to do things such as searching for a product in the store catalog, adding a selected product to a basket, and placing an order for it.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Typically, the earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.

Search engines view links as votes for one’s site but also understand that not all links have equal value. A link from a top ranked web site for example would carry more weight than a link from a site ranked 1 million. The process of determining the quality of links is a very complex one. Here are a few things a search engine may look at:

PageRank was developed at Stanford University by Larry Page (hence the name Page-Rank) and later Sergey Brin as part of a research project about a new kind of search engine. The project started in 1995 and led to a functional prototype, named Google, in 1998. Shortly after, Page and Brin founded Google Inc., the company behind the Google search engine. While just one of many factors which determine the ranking of Google search results, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of Google's web search tools

Quality Link building is a tedious process. Each website and industry is unique. Tactics that work on some websites won’t work on others and there’s not a lot one can do about it. The best thing to do is to try everything and capitalize on techniques that work when one finds them.

At the heart of successful SEO is determining what keyword or keywords to use when optimizing a website. The prevalence of a specific word or phrase on a webpage is critical to influencing SERP (Search Engine Result pages) ranking. In most cases websites should be optimized for multiple keywords, and a simple way to do this is to optimize different sections or pages with different keywords. Of course, there are exceptions to this approach.

Web design is the skill of designing hypertext presentations of content that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, micro blogging clients and RSS readers.

HTML, an initialization of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for Web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document—by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on—and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of tags, surrounded by angle brackets. HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code (such as JavaScript) which can affect the behavior of Web browsers and other HTML processors.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. It’s most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.

A scripting language, script language or extension language is a programming language that allows some control of a single or many software application(s). "Scripts" are often treated as distinct from "programs", which execute independently from any other application.At the same time they are distinct from the core code of the application, which is usually written in a different language, and by being accessible to the end-user they enable the behavior of the application to be adapted to the user's needs.