If you construct your website on your personal computer, you will need to
publish it to a web server before it can be made visible on the world wide
web. Some HTML generators and website construction applications have
built-in functionality to copy the website content to a server computer,
however many do not.
FTP is a file transfer protocol that is used to transfer files from one
computer to another. There are many different FTP packages available.
Most provide a user interface that lists the files on both computers and
allows the user to transfer individual files or entire websites between the
personal computer and the server computer.
In addition to publishing to the website to the server, it is necessary to "point" the domain
name that you have purchased to that physical address. This is done by
assigning
primary and secondary DNS names and DNS IP addresses to the domain name.
