ESTABLISHING A WEB PRESENCEHenry Osborne

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OBJECTIVES

• What is an Internet Service Provider?• Identify Web Development Tools• Display and Test a Web Page before “Going Live”• Putting a Website Online• MIME Types and Browser Usage

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INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS

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WHAT IS AN INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER?

• A business or organization that provides Internet connections by enabling data transmission between computers

• In populated areas, data transmission takes place through physical cables.

• Customers who reside/work in remote locations may be served using wireless transmission

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WIRED INTERNET SERVICE

• Dial-up• Cable modem• Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)• Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)• Fiber To The Premises (FTTP)

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WIRELESS INTERNET SERVICE

• WiFi• Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)• Global System for Mobile (GSM)• Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX)

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DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

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TOOLS

• Editors• SlickEdit• Brackets• Sublime Text• Aptana Studio

• Servers• Apache• Nanoweb

• FTP Clients• FileZilla• SmartFTP• WinSCP

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MIME TYPES

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WHAT IS MIME?

• MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an internet standard that is used to describe the contents of various files.

• The MIME type for HTML is: text/html

• MIME types are defined in HTML by the type attribute on links, objects, and script and style tags.

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MIME TYPES

avi - video/x-msvideo htm/html - text/html

bmp - image/bmp ico - image/x-icon

class - application/octet-stream jpe/jpeg/jpg - image/jpeg

css - text/css js - application/x-javascript

dll - application/x-msdownload mid - audio/mid

doc - application/msword mpv2 - video/mpeg

exe - application/octet-stream vrml - x-world/x-vrml

gz - application/x-gzip xbm - image/x-xbitmap

h - text/plain zip - application/zip

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