The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite
(TCP/IP). It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government
networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other
technologies.
The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably, the inter-linked hypertext
documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail, in addition to popular
services such as online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
person-to-person communication via voice and video.
The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s when the United States funded research projects of its military
agencies to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. This research and a period of civilian
funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation spawned worldwide participation in the
development of new networking technologies and led to the commercialization of an international network in the
mid 1990s, and resulted in the following popularization of countless applications in virtually every aspect of modern
human life. By 2009, an estimated quarter of Earth’s population uses the services of the Internet.
A computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients (user agents such as web browsers), and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are web pages such as HTML documents and linked objects (images, etc.).
In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee proposed to his employer CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) a new project, which had the goal of easing the exchange of information between scientists by using a hypertext system. As a result of the implementation of this project, in 1990 Berners-Lee wrote two programs:
Between 1991 and 1994 the simplicity and effectiveness of early technologies used to surf and exchange data through the World Wide Web helped to port them to many different operating systems and spread their use among lots of different social groups of people, first in scientific organizations, then in universities and finally in industry. In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee decided to constitute the World Wide Web Consortium to regulate the further development of the many technologies involved (HTTP, HTML, etc.) through a standardization process.
The following years are recent history which has seen an exponential growth of the number of web sites and servers. Server may refer to:
Server (computing), a server application, operating system, computer, or appliance
Application server, a server dedicated to running certain software applications
Communications server, carrier-grade computing platform for communications networks o Fax server, provides fax services for clients o File server, provides file services
Home server, a server for the home o Newsreader server, a server that feeds Usenet groups to client Newsreaders
Proxy server, provides database IT server in services
Sound server, provides multimedia broadcasting / streaming.
Standalone server, an emulator for client-server (web-based) programs
Web server, a server that HTTP clients connect to in order to send commands and receive responses along with data contents
Web Feed Server, a server that distributes, manages, and tracks internal and external RSS feeds in an enterprise
Client-server, a software architecture that separates “server” functions from “client” functions
Peer-to-peer, a network of computers running as both clients and servers Catalog server, a central search point for information across a distributed network
Here is some information provided to get you started with your new website including Resources in Frequently Asked Questions and setting up your email account in MS Outlook and Apple Mail.
A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation.
By default, all text on this website is set in a relatively sized font. This means that you can resize the text easily from within your browser. If you need to, you can also change the font, font colour and background colour. Instructions for the most common browser types are provided below.
To change the text size
To change the font and colour settings
To change the font:
To change text or background colours:
To remove images
For further help and assistance - please visit the Microsoft Help and Support website.
To change the text size
To change the font and colour settings
Firefox Users
To change the text size
To change the font and colour settings
To remove the images
For further help and assistance - please visit the Netscape Browser Central website.
To change the text size
Apple no longer supports Internet Explorer so you may find unresolvable problems when using it. We suggest you download the free browser 'Safari' to use instead, which is fully supported.
Safari is available for download here
To change the text size
For full instructions on making use of the various versions of the Macintosh operating system's accessibility features - including resizing text, text-to-speech function and keyboard alternatives to mouse functions, please visit the Apple website's section on accessibility.
To change the text size
For full instructions on making use of the various versions of the Macintosh operating system's accessibility features - including resizing text, text-to-speech function and keyboard alternatives to mouse functions, please visit the Apple website's section on accessibility.
Adobe Acrobat (and accessibility) This site uses Adobe Acrobat to display PDF documents. If you have trouble using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader - Adobe provide a free online tool which converts the content of PDF files to either HTML or ASCII text. Adobe also provides advise on how to configure your Reader, and a free download of the Accessible Adobe Reader.
For further help and assistance - please visit the Adobe accessibility website.
Assistive Technology There are a number of different softwares available to help people with various difficulties to use websites. Below are just a few examples. Online Lynx Viewer - online text browser Lynx. JAWS screen reader - download a free trial copy of the screen reader Jaws. Magic screen magnification - information on screen magnification software.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to exchange and manipulate files over an Internet Protocol computer network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server applications. Client applications were originally interactive command-line tools with a standardized command syntax, but graphical user interfaces have been developed for all desktop operating systems in use today. FTP is also often used as an application component to automatically transfer files for program internal functions. FTP can be used with user-based password authentication or with anonymous user access.
Hypertext Mark-up Language, or HTML, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to
describe a structured document by denoting structural semantics to text such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc. and
also some other semantics by denoting text as links, quotes, and other things. It also allows embedded images and
objects and interactive forms. It is written in the form of “tags” consisting of elements surrounded by angle brackets, and
can embed or load scripting languages such as JavaScript, that can affect the behavior of HTML processors like Web
browsers, and Cascading Style Sheets to define the appearance of text, and the layout of block elements - which is
encouraged over explicit presentational markup.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting)
of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and
XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the colors, fonts, and layout. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design). CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on Braille-based, tactile devices. While the author of a document typically links that document to a CSS stylesheet, readers can use a different stylesheet, perhaps one on their own computer, to override the one the author has specified. CSS specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called cascade, priorities or weights are calculated and assigned to rules, so that the results are predictable.
The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Internet media type (MIME type) text/ css is registered for use with CSS by RFC 2318 (March 1998).
PHP is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It has evolved to include a command
line interface capability and can be used in standalone graphical applications.
While PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, the main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP
Group and serves as the de facto standard for PHP as there is no formal specification. PHP is free software released under
the PHP License, which is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) due to restrictions on the use of the
term PHP.
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. It generally runs on a web server, which is configured to take PHP code as input and create web page content as output. It can be deployed on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform free of charge. PHP is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. Typically, the earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence. As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. The acronym “SEO” can also refer to “search engine optimizers,” a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site, SEO tactics may be incorporated into web site development and design. The term “search engine friendly” may be used to describe web site designs, menus, content management systems and shopping carts that are easy to optimize.
Marketing is an integrated communications-based process through which individuals and communities discover that
existing and newly-identified needs and wants may be satisfied by the products and services of others.
Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating,
communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at
large. [1] The term developed from the original meaning which referred literally to going to market, as in shopping, or
going to a market to buy or sell goods or services.
The Chartered Institute of Marketing, which is the world’s largest marketing body[citation needed], defines marketing as “The management process responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably.”
Electronic mail, often abbreviated as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages, designed primarily for human use. E-mail systems are based on a store-and-forward model in which e-mail computer server systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on behalf of users, who only need to connect to the e-mail infrastructure, typically an e-mail server, with a network-enabled device (e.g., a personal computer) for the duration of message submission or retrieval. Rarely is e-mail transmitted directly from one user’s device to another’s. An electronic mail message consists of two components, the message header, and the message body, which is the email’s content. The message header contains control information, including, minimally, an originator’s email address and one or more recipient addresses. Usually additional information is added, such as a subject header field. Originally a text-only communications medium, email is extended to carry multi-media content attachments, which were standardized in with RFC 2045 through RFC 2049, collectively called, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). All information is provided by Wikipedia. Please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page for more information typing in any of the following questions to learn more..
The following is a general guide to setting up Microsoft Outlook 2007 to enable you to send and receive emails.
This answer explains how you can setup your Apple Mail client.
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