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AROUND THE WEB IN EIGHTY KILOBYTES 1.39 - 1.40
ATWI80KB 20
August 18, 2000
1) Hosts and Uploading
2) Continue Learning
1) HOSTS AND UPLOADING
There are two reasons for someone to want a website - to open a '.com' company and become a billionare by the age of 30, or to get a little place on the web to upload articles and things. To open a '.com', you probably wouldn't want to do all the HTML writing yourself, you'd hire a team of web designers to do the job. I'm assuming most readers are going to get a free homepage account somewhere. Here are a few things to look for:
a) A reasonable amount of space.
You'll be surprised how much you need as your page grows.
b) Frames support.
It seems obvious that a good homepage provider will support frames, but this is suprisingly not always true.
c) CGI support.
This is rarely available, but it is useful.
d) A good URL.
The longer the URL, the tougher it is to remember. I like subdomains, like http://yourname.hostname.com .
e) Good free tools.
Free scripts make coding faster.
f) Free email.
It's nice to have a separate account for website-related email.
g) Easy uploading.
Most people know that HTTP means 'HyperText Transfer Protocol'. Uploading uses 'File Transfer Protocol', or FTP. You can get FTP programs for this, but good webspace providers provide tools that let you upload from your browser.
I've found one provider that meets all these conditions well - Tripod.
2) CGI AND ASP
This tutorial was just a combination of what I learnt from about 8 tutorials, a book or two and some stuff I figured out. Here's a link to a good tutorial site in case you want to go on learning: http://www.webmonkey.com
Also visit http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta
I've started work on another website at http://nathsite.homepage.com. When that's done, it might have more links and free scripts.
Well, that was fun!
Aniruddh Nath
Email questions to atwi80kb@homepage.com - I'll reply if I have time. I might write stuff from your email in later ATWI80KB's.
NOTE: I'm not responsible for any damage done to your computer because of this tutorial.