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As noted in Part 1 in this series, embedded Web Applications use the same HTTP communications mechanism as your bank account or the latest game on your smartphone. And why not? The HTTP protocol is ...

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The World Wide Web has untold millions of Web sites providing information and interactive services to billions of users. There are many ways to create and host a Web site these days, whether for an ...

Fifteen years ago, you weren’t a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most ...

Web hosting and domains are both essential to publishing a website. Learn how they work -- and how they work together. Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured ...