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Set the goals for the website.
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Organize your content into the main topics.
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Come up with a general structure for pages and topics.
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Use storyboarding to plan your website.
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Anatomy of a Website
First, here's a look at some simple terminology I use throughout this topic. You need to
know what the following terms mean and how they apply to the body of work you're
developing for the Web:
Website —A collection of one or more web pages linked together in a meaningful
way that, as a whole, describes a body of information or creates an overall effect
(see Figure 2.1).
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Web server —A computer on the Internet or an intranet that delivers web pages
and other files in response to browser requests. (An intranet is a network that uses
Internet protocols but is not publicly accessible.)
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Web page —A single document on a website, usually consisting of an Hypertext
Markup Language (HTML) document and any items that are displayed within that
document, such as inline images.
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Home page —The entry page for a website, which can link to additional pages on
the same website or pages on other sites.
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Each website is stored on a web server. Throughout the first few lessons in this topic,
you learn how to develop well thought-out and well-designed websites. Later, you learn
how to publish your site on an actual web server.
A web page is an individual element of a website in the same way that a page is a single
element of a book or a newspaper. (Although, unlike paper pages, web pages can be of
any length.) Web pages sometimes are called web documents . Both terms refer to the
same thing. A web page consists of an HTML document and all the other components
that are included on the page, such as images or other media.
One problem with the term home page is that it means different things in different con-
texts. If you're browsing the Web, you usually can think of the home page as the web
page that loads when you start your browser or when you click the Home button. Each
browser has its own default home page, which generally leads to the website of the
browser's creator or one that makes it some money through advertising when you visit.
 
 
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