Glossary of terms
Domain name - the address of your web site. For example Google’s domain name is www.google.com
Domain name registrar - a service provider that enables you to secure a domain name.
Web server - a computer (or series of computers) that sits out on the public internet and serves web content. Your files reside on a web server so that they can be viewed by visitors to your web site. Many web servers serve multiple web sites from the servers, those are called shared hosts.
Web hosting provider - a service provider that provides you a web server or space on a web server where you put your HTML files so that anyone can view them in a web browser
DNS - Domain Name System, this is a system that essentially maps your web domain to the server where your web site files live.
FTP - File Transfer Protocol, a mechanism for transferring files from one computer to another. You will want to get FTP client software to make it easy to publish the files you create on your PC to your web hosting provider
SEO - Search Engine Optimization, a method for making it easy for search engines like Google to understand your site and make it easy for searchers to find your site
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language, the language syntax used on the internet to layout web pages. This language describes how a page on the internet is supposed to be displayed in the browser. As an example the following html
<b>This is in bold</b> and <u>This is underlined</u>
would display this in a browser
This is in bold and this is underlined
There are many tools for creating HTML pages and many that allow you to lay the pages out visually without ever learning HTML syntax. Dreamweaver by Adobe is one of the more popular HTML editors but even Microsoft Word can save a page as HTML (although Word’s HTML can be messy). You can view the HTML for any web page you see in your browser by going to View->Source.