WHAT
HTML
Graphics
Links
Movies
Sounds
and more!

WHEN
Now?
Later?
Been there, done that?

WHERE
My place or yours?

Internet Solutions

Certainly, the several facets of presenting a bold and new face for the community has it's confusions, and if you're not familiar with the jargon, a whole new language to learn.

Therefore, to start, I've got this list of concepts (look in the sidebar), and you can wander around till you find something comfortable, and take it from there.

The Who, What, When, Where, How, but most importantly, the Why's of Web Solutions.

WHO

There are 3 kinds of people in this world, those who can count, and those who can't.  If you're the kind of person that knows computers, and can FTP and can Link your heart out, then welcome.  If you know nothing about computers, short of "I like my microwave, leave me alone", welcome also.

We can handle any part of a web solution, from providing the actual page, to the server that makes it available, to the search engines that make things sell, to handling the orders that you'll get from your site.

Knowing what makes up a web site is the first step in determining who's responsible for them.  There are 3 types of people that make a good site work.

1. Web Designer.  This is the person that decides what content should be in the page.  What is being said, sold, pushed, gawked at, and determines the overall look and feel of the site.  Color schemes, navigation and font choices are the domain of this person.
2. The HTML Author writes pages, uses an HTML editor and makes the words appear on the page.  A good Author can also manipulate graphics to make them ready for internet consumption.
3. A Web Programmer makes the buttons work behind the scenes.  When you click "search" or "buy" or "more info" or "get some help!", programs behind the scenes (called Server-Sde Code by geeks) make the bells ring and the gee-gaws tilt.  They know languages like Perl, VB, Java and Javascript.  If they know TCP/IP and all that internet 'stuff', so much the better.

Often, one person tries to take on all 3 roles.  If you have never done any of these, expect some surprises, and stark realities, but also, never forget the reason you're doing all this!

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WHAT

Web Pages consist of several pieces.

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WHEN

Well, whenever you're ready.  Web Sites are up all the time, so somebody's computer, yours or ours, will be on and listening for all those web surfers.  Surf's Up!  Are you on-line now?

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WHERE

Web Pages are hosted on computers called Web Servers.  These are generally PC's that are permanently connected to the Internet, and ready to answer surfing requests.

Web Servers can be anywhere there's a fulltime Internet connection.  The bigger the Internet connection pipe, the better off you'll be.  If there's people there that baby-sit the connection, you'll be (generally) assured that your site is available.   Please not that there are no guarantees of service and availability when it comes to this space, so do not expect compensation if the down time negatively affects you.

We can help you put a web server at your company's location, where you have complete and total control, or we can 'rent' you space on our web server that we host. 

Wherever the server is, you should have access to your 'logs', the record of all the visitors and if possible, analysis tools to be able to chart your stellar progress on the net.

Even if you've already developed a site, it should probably be reviewed, updated, made more current.  When's the last time you looked at your visitor logs?  What's your hit count this week?  How many megabytes did you serve up?

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HOW

Well, through the magic of the Internet (fueled mainly by big companies and Uncle Sam) we can assume that lots and lots of computers will be connected (full time or on-demand) to this global computer network.  The 'vehicles' of the internet run on TCP/IP, and the messages they carry are email, web surfing HTML, Audio, movies, phone calls, pictures, tele-conferencing, and cool whix-bang geegaws.

Each computer on the Internet gets an address, and the more important computers even get an entry in the address book of the Internet - called DNS.  Once you have an entry in the DNS address book, surfers can type "www.packetex.com" and find your TCP/IP address, and look at your stuff.  A company currently called "Internic" handles that, and you can visit them at www.internic.net.

Once someone has your address, they ring your (web servers) doorbell, and (usually) get invited in.  Sometimes passwords are needed, for some sites are secure and require payment or membership to get inside.  Most of the time, however, web sites are free.

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WHY?

Well, that's the big question, and there's no easy answer. Let me rattle off some of the obvious ones.

Most people now see that the Internet is a huge marketing tool, and that bringing together buyers and sellers is the name of the game.  Expect to see lots of advertising, and 'let the buyer beware' - there is NO authority on the Internet that requires truth-in-advertising!

Visit our clients to see some of the ways we help them solve their problems.