Creating an Effective Web Site

Before beginning to explore the details associated with planning for the creation of an effective web site, first it is important to fully understand what the web is an how it all works. Having a sound knowledge of how the whole process works will make the concept of a web site easier to understand. This will serve as a very brief overview.

During the 1960's the US Military was interested in developing a communications network that wouldn't be disabled by a single "hit" or nuclear attack, the result was ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network).

Over the next 40 years, a number of technical innovations and an overall increase in adaptations of the Internet as it became to be known, continued to propel its soaring growth into what it is today, commonly referred to as "The Web."

Today the Internet is a very large and sometimes complex arrangement of a variety of services and devices. First take a moment to look at the concept of services and then take a high level look at the two main devices which are integral parts to a web site. These devices are the web site server and the web site browser.