The Functionality of a Website

Website is one way to have a home online. With the aid of your website, potential customers can come and learn about your business, what you have to offer them. In this article, we will be looking at web services, domain names and what they do for you.

For instance, you decide to open a business in the bakery world, first you will rent a space to house all the goods. Your website is not different from these. You will need to rent a space on a server instead of a street. There are a lot of services that take care of this automatically.

A server is a computer connected to the internet with various software’s that allows it to stores or hold pieces of the website such as the images, the codes, the video clips and all the content that makes up the server. There are many companies that render these services. All you need to do is pay a hosting fee just like you are paying for your house rent which enables them to take them take care of the technical aspect of running a server. Every single server in the world has an address and it is called an IP (Internet Protocol) address which is a long address.

THE DOMAIN NAME
The domain name is how potential customers will find you online just the way people will find a real bakery world just by the sign on its door. The domain name is what you type into the browser window like www.bing.com or www.yourbusinessname.com. Everything after “www” is what makes it easy for people to locate you through any device you are searched from. When your web address is typed on a web server, the browser locates which server hosts the content and heads over to that server then the server communicates by requesting to show all the elements that make up the website.

In conclusion, deciding to building a website, it all begins by understanding how it all works together via a server hosts your website, a domain name which will help people find you online.