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League Web Manager Help File

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web ("WWW") is what most people call "the internet", though, more correctly, the WWW is only one way to use the internet. To really understand how the WWW works, one must understand the internet, so here we'll take a quick overview of how it all works together.

The internet is made up of many millions of computers: Some of these computers are almost always connected to the internet and whose purpose is to automatically provide services of one kind or another. These are usally called "servers". The rest of these computers are directly controlled by people. Most of these are not necessarily connected to the internet all the time. Often, they use a telephone line to connect by dialing into and connecting to a computer that IS permanently connected to the internet. These computers that can be dialed into (and the companies that run them) are called "Internet Service Providers" (or ISP for short). When the user's computer hangs up, they are no longer connected. Some examples of ISPs are AOL, BellSouth, CompuServe, AT&T WorldNet and Juno. Juno is one of the few ISPs that offers access for free.

The WWW is made up of the millions of HTML text files sitting on the servers on the internet. These servers are running a program (called a "Web Server") that will send a user's computer whichever HTML text file they request. You, as a user, run a program called a "Web Browser", which makes these requests of the Web Servers. The powerful part of the WWW is that the HTML text files contain links inside them that point to other HTML files which can be on the same Web Server, or any other Web Server on the internet. Therefore, the whole WWW is a "web" of links, all interconnected information.

Some Web Servers are owned by the company whose web pages it serves. Other web servers are "up for hire": They're maintained by qualified technicians employed by the hosting company, but they "host" other people's web sites for a fee. There are a few web hosts that don't charge for hosting. Instead, they sell advertising space, then automatically place advertisements on all the web pages they serve. See Free Web Hosts for a list of some of these. Also, most ISPs, as part of the internet access you buy from them, also provide a small amount (usually 5MB to 10MB, more than enough for a League's web page) of storage on one of their own web servers.

In order to make a web page that has been created locally on your computer available for anyone to see, it has to be copied (transferred, uploaded, sent) to a web server. This process differs from one web server to another, but the standard method is to use FTP. For more detail about this process, see Transferring Files.

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