Website building and hosting, dns, general knowledge

Question

Web development

Good evening gentlemen. One person recently asked me to talk about site building, hosting device, DNS, scripts and layout.
I was already starting to explain, but due to the inability to find simple and understandable word forms, I poured a ton of information on him, which brought him little use.
So it turned out that it’s easy to communicate with geek friends, but it’s problematic to explain seemingly simple things in simple language.
Advise, please, something on the subject, on the great and mighty, respectively.
Thank you in advance :)

Answer 1

On site building, layout and scripts for the very basics , this book is suitable .
It describes the basic things of the web, what is what and where it is applied. Now, of course, it is outdated, and initially it was impossible to learn anything from it, but you can make out the idea of ​​​​the technologies used with a cursory reading.
As for hosting, let a person take any book on PHP and set up a local web server using it, preferably with virtual hosts. This will give you a good idea of ​​what shared hosting is all about. After that, he will have enough knowledge to understand your explanations about other types of hosting.
As for dns, I don't even know what to advise. Seems like a good article on the wiki.

Answer 2

Advise the person literature "for dummies." Everything is detailed there.

Answer 3

In my opinion, the important points are:
1. Client-server interaction. The hosting device follows from this, no analogies are even needed here. It's just that the client sends a request, the server receives the request, passes it to the necessary handler and returns a ready response.
2. Tell about the network in a broad sense (the street on which the houses stand, the houses have addresses (IP, yeah), DNS - telephone directory, host name - the name of the person, and so on).
About site building, I xs, what can I say. It really needs to be read and experienced.