Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Networking, Fourth Edition

Chapter 16. Hosting a Web Site

In this chapter

• Creating your corporate presence on the Web

• Using the Web as a marketing tool

• Selling products on the Web

• Understanding secure online transaction methods

• Hosting a Web site

• Creating a Web site

So far, we’ve discussed what the Internet is (in Chapter 14, “How the Internet Works”) and how a company or institution can connect to the Internet (Chapter 15, “Connecting a Network to the Internet”). In this chapter, we take a look at establishing a corporate presence on the Internet in the form of a Web site.

We’ve also already discussed how you obtain a domain name, but it’s how you actually use that domain name in association with your Web site and other services you provide your customer base via the Internet ...