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What is website?

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A website is a folder full of files on a computer

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A website can be on your computer, but usually its on a computer that’s always on called a server

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A server’s location on the internet is represented by 4 numbers called an ip address

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Because its hard to remember that many numbers, a service called DNS lets you type in google.com and turn it into the address for the server with that page

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You don’t need to understand this to make websites, but it’s nice to know. Let’s get back to the files.

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The main file that makes a website, and the only one you need is an html file, usually called index.html. This file is written in the language HTML.

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What is HTML?

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HTML is a ‘markup’ aka drawing language that tells your web browser what to show visually. Kind of like how PostScript tells your printer what to print

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Let’s write some HTML