Hi Jami,

(sounds like an alias?)

What do you want to do? Do you want to try out your pages content
and design? Then you can use the filesystem as well and dont need
a server. If you want to provide access to other users to proofe
your work, you can use a simple web server, PWS if nothing else
is available, but Apache is very simple too. You only need to
install it with the installer and use the document directory
brought with it. This way you dont have to make any changes to
your settings.

If you want however to write server side scripts and such, you
dont came around to teach yourself. Programming the web is not
just clicking here and there. It is reading, trying and understanding.

If you do so, you will probably choose Apache or even Zope.

Regards
Tino


--On Samstag, 5. Mai 2001 21:26 -0500 Jami Moore <jami(at)jamisniche.com> 
wrote:

> Hi all. I am new to the list and after scoring the archives for hours, I
> have turned up nothing to help.
>
> I am a web designer who wants to host her own sites from her desktop
> computer. I run Windows98, and really can't get copies of NT/Linux/Unix
> systems. I keep seeing Apache and hearing that its the best, but after a
> quick peruse of their site, I don't think I am technical enough to want to
> try to install software that isn't fully supported.
>
> I have been told that PWS is good, but can it serve publicly? Do I need a
> DNS server to make it work? Will my ISP have to give me a static IP (I am
> on DSL)?
>
> Any help you can give would be great.
>
> Jami
>

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