Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Exploring Web Editors

     A web editor is a software used to create a webpage without having to use an HTML code. The relationship between the two programs, web editing and HTML, is that they both are used to create web pages. One example of a web editor could be Adobe Dreamweaver. This program was designed by Macromedia to create websites. It has some great features such as being able to manipulate pixel-level design, you can drag and drop files from other programs such as photoshop, you can also upload FLV files onto dreamweaver and you can do this without typing in an HTML code. Other examples of wb editors can be CoffeeCup and Namo.
     A website and a web page are two different things, a web page is one, single page in a whole website. Let's say that there's a website about tea, there are many different categories about tea such as the flavour, the fields etc. You can put each subtopic on a web page such as have one page on flavour another on the fields etc. Web pages are many in a single website and there are usually many links leading up to different web pages.
     To view a website you need a browser, a browser opens up websites. Like internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox, this is what we usually use to open up websites, browsers are the only progarm that can open websites.
    A web server has two definitions, it can be a a computer and a software. A computer web serever basically refers to the computer or virtual machine running a program. A web server software is a computer program that delivers content, such as Web pages, using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) using the internet. We use servers to create web pages because it sends our information to the internet and creates a web page.
     A domain name is used to find organizations and computers and addresses on the internet, basically IP addresses. Domain names are used in  URL's to identify particular web pages. For example if the URL is www.shreyareddyiscool.com the domain name would be shreyareddyiscool.