How does a website work?

Well, the odds are you're sitting at your computer looking at this Web page through a browser. Most likely you're using a browser called Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Opera, Mozilla, or Safari. A browser is a computer software program that can take you to different places on the Web by typing in the URL of a Web page and clicking "go" or "enter" on your keyboard. A browser also looks at the HTML tags on a site and translates those tags into what you're looking at now, a Web site. Different browsers interpret HTML tags a little differently, so what you see on one browser is not necessarily what you will see on another browser. Your browser asks the Web server of the URL you're trying to reach to send the information (Web site) that you requested. The Web server sends the information back to you and you see it on your browser.

It doesn't matter which browser you use, as long as you're happy with it. I use Opera, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Netscape. I view my site in all four of the browsers to make sure it looks decent in every browser. My favorite browser is Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is absolutely free and it's super awesome. I don't like the other ones that much, especially Opera because it tends to be slow on my computer.