Learning Objectives

Students should understand:

• What a website is.
• What a web browser does.
• What a web server does.
• How users access websites.

Lesson Content

When someone enters a website address into a browser, the browser sends a request to a web server.

The server processes the request and sends information back to the browser.

The browser then displays the website to the visitor.

The basic process is:

Visitor → Browser → Internet → Web Server → Website → Browser → Visitor

WordPress operates on the web server and helps manage the content that visitors see.