We have to learn how to put our pages on the Information Highway and then how to set up a framework so that our stuff can be useful to the outside world. In browsing the Web, I'm sure you've noticed that every site has a home page, like a doorway to that site. Your home page exists now and you can display it in your own browser, but no one else can because it is not on a server. A server is a computer that is hooked up to the Internet. The browser gets the HTML of that page and then the browser can display the page.
Browsers are applications that can communicate with servers and display HTML formatted pages.
We have to get our page to a server. This is done through file transfer over the Internet. Don't get excited, you don't have to learn this language to make file transfers happen, you use FTP software. In these applications, there are set-ups that make it easy to set up your site and update it. We'll cover that in the next section.