Domains, Webspace and Text Effects

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Domains · Webspace · Text effects with CSS · Homework · Links

Domains

We are talking about second level domains, e.g. “refugeesemancipation.com” which consists of the top level part “com” and the second level part “refugeesemancipation”, combined by the dot.

Examples of prices for “owning” (registering) a domain (per domain and year at Domainfactory):
 

1st level domain € / domain / year
.de 6,60 €
.eu 18,60 €
.com, .net, .org 12,60 €

Webspace

A domain without webspace is useless if you want to publish information on the Web. (Of course you can still
use it for EMail or other stuff otherwise.) Providers offer many different packages which sometimes include
a domain.

Examples (per package and year) (Provider: www.df.eu) (all price examples from the year 2008):
 

Provider Name Price per year Setup fee Features
Domainfactory “MyHome S” 13,80 € + domain 4,95 € 100 MB Webspace, 1 GB Mailspace
Domainfactory “MyHome Dyn.” 83,40 € + domain 4,95 € 500 MB Webspace, 5 GB Mailspace, PHP, …
Domain*go “relax S” 11,88 € (.de incl.) 9,99 € 100 MB Webspace, 1 GB Mailspace
Domain*go “power S” 35,88 € (.de incl.) 9,99 € 500 MB Webspace, 1 GB Mailspace, PHP, …

A package with domain and webspace generally offers space and management facilities for EMail, too. You can
have your own domain with any EMail name you like (e.g. “mistressoftheuniverse@mydomain.de”) for around
15 € per year (Domainfactory “MyMail” + .de-Domain) (which is cheaper than a “Pro” account from Web.de or GMX.de).

Text effects with CSS

Examples: ( | means XOR (exclusive or) )

font-family: sans-serif | serif | monospace | cursive;
font-family: Georgia | Charcoal | Times | Chicago, sans-serif;

font-weight: normal | bold | bolder | lighter;

font-size: small | medium | large | smaller | larger;

font-style: italic | oblique | normal;

font-variant: small-caps | normal;

font-stretch: normal | wider | narrower | condensed | expanded;

Homework:

Have 3 different font styles in your website, just for fun.

Links:

Using CSS (German): http://http://de.selfhtml.org/css/index.htm