What is streaming?

What is streaming?

The word streaming means your site or page is using multimedia on it, which is the use of music, videos, audio or similar files. The use of streaming is most popular in the listening to the radio online, or watching a music video or news online.

Streaming is done from the server where your website files are hosted. Streaming allows the information to be heard or seen without interruption, without downloading information to the users computer. Streaming allows those who are listening or using the information from the server to see the same thing, at the same time such as a radio station. Consider streaming to be instant use. Streaming doesn’t allow the user, listener or the watcher to save files on their computer, but to see, hear and listen at once.

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What do I need to host multimedia content on my server?

What do I need to host multimedia

content on my server?

A web page is more than the words on a page. A web page can contain information such as movies, music, audio or in other words, it can contain sound or video. Your hosting company may provide you with a small amount of space, or a large amount of space for your website, depending on the company and the amount of money that you are charged.

The more audio and visual files you have on your page, on your web site the larger the amount of space you will require for hosting of those pages.

There are two types of files you can put on your website, which are individual and steaming types.

Individual files are those that you load once to your site. These files can be loaded to your site, and played from the server just as any other page loads from your site. You an also provide links from your website so the user can download that file to their own computer and play the same information (audio or video).

The streaming file is one that contains larger amounts of information. Consider the streaming file to be the one that flows information, while the individual file is one that is a drop of information. The streaming file is one that will download to the users computer as it plays so it saves on space and use of the server where your information (your website) is stored.

Information such as music, movies and videos require a large amount of bandwidth to play. You can compare this to dial up and to DSL or cable. The more information you want to see and have on your site, the more bandwidth your site will require users to access it properly. Read the fine print from the hosting company to ensure your site will continue to run and be seen properly while using multimedia on your site.

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What is website builder?

What is website builder?

To build a web site, or just one web page, you need the use of HTML language, scripts and other programming, but a website builder is going to take all the hard work out of creating and building a web site so you can build it yourself.

A website builder could be software that you access online or that you purchase online. The website builder is a series of templates that already include the use of HTML and scripts and other needed languages to get you the same results. Some hosting companies and some domain name providers give you free templates and access to website builder software, while you can purchase expanded templates and programs to enhance and provide your website with many different variations.

The use of a website builder is done online, and not on your computer. You can only work on your website while you are connected to the Internet. The use of a website builder will continue to use a username and password, to protect your site and the contents of your site.

If you are going to use the website builder provided by a hosting or a domain company it is suggested that you preview your site before publishing and also that you try many of the wizards and templates available so you can create the site that fits your idea of a great website.

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How do I put my website on the server?

How do I put my website on the server?

The creation of your web pages is completed on your computer. Then, you must put those files you have created on the server where you have chosen to have your site hosted. The first step in doing this is to build your site, and then set up a user name and password for your site with a hosting provider.

The files are transferred to the server of the hosting company by use of ftp. This is the fastest and safest way for all of your files to be transferred. This is a direct link to the server where other people will view and access your web pages.

To set the ftp link up you need to find out the name of the ftp host, this information will be provided to you by your hosting company. You will have a user name and a password so that we you access the link, you can upload your pages. The use of a user name and password is important so that no one else can access, change or delete your web pages.

Many programs, such as web builders, that are loaded onto your computer from a disk will allow you to input this information and save it so you don’t have to enter your username and password each time you want to publish your website.

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What is HTML?

What is HTML?

The computers you use, and the Internet you use, are created using a different language compared to what you speak. HTML is a code, which tells the computer what to do, what to display and how to display it. For example, the color behind this writing could be white, blue or green, or even mixed – all as a result of the HTML code the page is written. The writing you see could be BIG, bold, or italic, again controlled by the HTML code.

Students learn to write basic HTML in school, but most people are not interested unless they are going to develop websites for a living. You can use web builder programs and templates to create that same web page without having to learn HTML. If you want to see what HTML looks like, hit view source using the right click button on any web page and you can see just how much is really involved in HTML language.

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