subject: Websites And The Internet [print this page] The Internet is an amazing thing. The Internet is an amazing thing.
If your just using it to occasionally surf, you have your own website or youve been in the industry for years, a good website can put a smile on your face.
However surrounding the Internet and modern computers in general there is a lot of jargon and techie speak that can scare or isolate many people.
To help or customers understand some of the jargon weve put together this brief overview.
The Internet
The Internet is a well known expression across the world. In reality the Internet is just a mass of computers and the connections between them. On these computers are stored files that represent Websites.
Servers
Servers are just special computers who main role is to server files or websites to the Users. Servers are finely tuned for just this role. Most servers round the word are held in secure data centers, warehouses filled with state of the art technology. Servers come in many shapes and sizes depending on their task.
Clients/Users
Clients or sometimes referred to as Users are the end point of the Internet, the viewers of your website. With coming up to 1 billion mobile devices online, Users can be anywhere at anytime interacting with your website.
Browsers
Browsers come in many shapes and sizes and everyone has their favourite. All browsers do the job of fetching websites from their servers and displaying them to the end Users. Browsers were a nightmare for developers jobs but since the jQuery revolution browsers have become the platform for a whole new industry.
Websites
Websites take many shape and sizes some good some bad. But all web representing sites have on thing in common, HTML. HTML or HyperText Markup Language is a method of all kinds of website in a standard way. This is one of the main features of the Internet and Websites and without this standard The Internet would not have spread so successfully. A Simple Website is made up of one or many files containing HTML.
HTML
HTML is a mixture between Text and Tags. Text is the Content of the Website, its what the user sees. The text the images. Tags are one part of HTML, they are hidden to the User but tell the browser how to display certain parts of a website or given the content structure.
An example or snippet of HTML
Hello World, What's your name..?
In this example the opening and closing , p or paragraph tag give this HTML structure, saying this is a paragraph. The opening and closing tag tell the browser that your should be in bolder font.
Many thousands of these tags when perfectly arranged can represent and website.
For more examples please Check Out HTML the Basics
Javascript
Javascript is a computer programming language, it is the main programming language of the browser and is used worldwide. Javascript allows websites to interact with their Users in new ways.
