Chapter 1. Web Server Setup

Introduction

The process of designing a web site does not start in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, or your favorite text editor. Before the first line of code is written and the first image is optimized, a web site must have a home on the Internet and a virtual provenance of sorts that legitimizes its existence along with the millions of sites that have come before. Web sites must have a domain name, as well as disk space on a web server, to join the ever-growing club of online resources. In this chapter, we'll untangle the choices that confront web site builders during the process of getting a new web site off the ground.

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