What Is A Website (Web Site)?
A website is a set of web pages, typically common to a domain name or sub-domain on the World Wide Web on the Internet.
A website is a document HTML / XHTML usually accessible via the HTTP Internet protocol. All publicly accessible websites constitute as the “World Wide Web” of information.
The pages of a website are accessed from a common root URL called the home page, and usually reside on the same physical server. The URL pages organized in a hierarchy, although the hyperlinks between them control how the reader perceives the overall structure and how the traffic flows between the different parts of the sites.
Some websites require a subscription to access some or all of its contents. Examples of subscription sites include many Internet pornography sites, parts of many news sites, gaming sites, forums, email services and web-based sites that provide stock data in real time.
Usually a website is managed (created, maintained and updated) by a so-called webmaster, but there are other possibilities:
- Website updates itself automatically and permanently on a database;
- Its pages are created dynamically and automatically according to user actions within a web application;
- Website is created and is administered either by its users – see Web 2.0.
Web Site: Overview
It is another organization and is typically dedicated to some particular topic or purpose. Any website can contain hyperlinks to any other website, so that the distinction between individual sites, as perceived by the user, may sometimes be blurred.
Not to be confused with web site, the latter is just an HTML file, and is part of a website. By entering an address, such as www.wikimedia.org, provided the reference is to a website, which has an initial HTML page, which is the first thing they see. The Internet search is done by associating the DNS entered the IP address of the server containing the website in which the HTML page is searched.
Websites are written in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), or dynamically converted to this and are accessed using a software called web browser, also known as an HTTP client. Websites can be viewed or accessed from a range of devices with Internet availability as personal computers, laptops, PDAs, and mobile phones.
A website is hosted on a computer known as a web server, also called an HTTP server, and they may also refer to the software running on this computer and that retrieves and delivers the pages of a website in response to user requests. Apache is the most commonly used as a web server and Internet Information Services (IIS) from Microsoft also commonly used.
A website typically consists of several web pages. A Web page is a document created with HTML markup language and (optionally) programming languages such as PHP, ASP etc. being accessible to visitors through the HTTP protocol, which transfers information from server to browser. Web page is called so because, displayed on a monitor, it is like a newspaper page: websites usually have a width which fits entirely on the screen.
Instead, the page can be even much higher (deeper) than the screen height, it can still be easily displayed using the normal functions of mouse and browser used by “pulling” up and down. Also, a website can be viewed on any Internet-connected device capable of displaying information via the HTTP protocol (some mobile phones, PDAs, etc.).
A site consists of several pages and has a main entry page called a Homepage or main homepage, which has outgoing links chiefly to inner web pages. Structures and patterns of “navigation” inside websites are very different, depending on the goals, desires and other information.
A static website is one that has content that is not expected to change frequently and is manually maintained by some person or persons using any editor program. There are two broad categories of programs used for this purpose editors are:
- Text editors like Notepad, where the HTML is manipulated directly in the editor program, or
- “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) editors such as Microsoft FrontPage and Adobe Dreamweaver, where the site is edited using a GUI interface and the underlying HTML automatically generated with the program editor.
A dynamic website is one that may have frequent changes in the information. When the web server receives a request for a page on a website, the page is automatically generated by the software in direct response to the request of the page, thus opening up for many more possibilities, for example: The site can display the status current dialogue between users, monitor a changing situation, or provide personal information in some way to individual user requirements.
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