Conventional
site building happens on a local PC and gets uploaded to the web host. Going
by this convention, you have to first create your site locally using a HTML
editor application like Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dream weaver and
then get it uploaded to your web host.
Disk based & server based web:
During initial site building, your
website can be either disk based or server based. Server based means your
desktop OS, (windows 2000, XP) or any other, will run a local web server (IIS
- Internet information Server) and then
you would build and run your web site against that server.
Advantage of choosing server based web
for site building is that you can
run pages that are not completely static. For example pages which has a form
that would e-mail on clicking the submit button.
Installing IIS (Internet Information Server):
Assuming you are using windows XP Professional and IIS
as the web server, if it is not already installed, IIS is installed through
'add / remove programs' in windows control panel. Once it is installed, it can
be administered from “administrative tools” again in control panel.
Running IIS.
IIS is fairly simple to administer. When
you open IIS administration screen from control panel, administrative tools,
you can see your computer sitting there in the first screen, double click
that you will see web sites. Further you can see all your IIS based sites
you built. Several web server related administration functions like
configuring frontpage extensions, security, etc can be done from right here.
Windows 98 had something called personal web server and
it can be your web server also. In windows 2000, procedure for installing
IIS is the same as windows XP.
In disk based web, web site is created directly on the
disk (c or d drive) and as a folder and not on a web server like the one we
mentioned above.
Disk based web for all purposes of site
building as server based web except that it can not handle any server
handled processes
like sending an e-mail from a from or running an asp page.
Next:
Building on your own
