A Basic History of Web Design California

Web design in California could not be possible without the development of the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is particularly valuable in California, where most of the tech industry and web design firms are located. In fact, web design has some very strong roots in the Silicon Valley in northern California.

Viewing a Web page on the World Wide Web, in California or elsewhere, normally begins either by typing the URL (Uniform Resource Locater) of the page into a Web browser, or by following a hyperlink to that page or resource. The Web browser then initiates a series of communication messages, behind the scenes, in order to fetch and display it.
First, the server-name portion of the URL is resolved into an IP address using the global, distributed Internet database known as the domain name system, or DNS. This IP address is necessary to contact and send data packets to the Web server.

The browser then requests the resource by sending an HTTP request to the Web server at that particular address, in California or elsewhere. In the case of a typical Web page or web design, the HTML text of the page is requested first and broken down immediately by the Web browser, which will then make additional requests for images and any other files that form a part of the page. Statistics measuring a website's popularity are usually based on the number of 'page views' or associated server 'hits', or file requests, which take place.

Having received the required files from the Web server, the browser then renders the page onto the screen as specified by its HTML, CSS, and other Web languages. Any images and other resources are incorporated to produce the on-screen Web page that the user sees.

Most Web pages will themselves contain hyperlinks to other related pages and perhaps to downloads, source documents, definitions and other Web resources. Such a collection of useful, related resources, interconnected via hypertext links, is what was dubbed a "web" of information. Making it available on the Internet created what Tim Berners-Lee first called the World Wide Web (a term written in CamelCase, subsequently discarded) in 1990.

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