From Playground to Web: Getting Your Pages Online
When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imaginations. —Tim Berners-Lee
This appendix covers
- Downloading page files from the Web Design Playground
- Validating HTML and CSS syntax
- Understanding and selecting a web hosting service
- Uploading page files to your web host
You've covered much ground in this book, and no doubt worked your fingers to the bone applying the electronic equivalent of spit and polish to buff your website's pages to an impressive sheen. But you need to perform a couple of related tasks before you can cross "Make website" off the to-do list: Find a web home for your site, and move your website files to that new home. This appendix helps take care of both tasks. You first learn how to look for and choose a spot on the web where friends, family, and even total strangers from far-flung corners of the world can eyeball your creation. Then you learn how to emigrate your web pages from their native land (the Web Design Playground or your hard disk) to the New World (the web). You’ll learn how to best prepare your pages for the journey, select a mode of transportation, and settle the pages in when they've arrived.