Website
A set of web pages under one address, stored on a server and opened in a browser.
A website is a collection of web pages that live together under one domain name, like wikipedia.org. Each web page is a document written in HTML, usually styled with CSS and often made interactive with JavaScript. The site is the whole thing; a page is one screen of it, with its own address.
To exist, a website needs three things. A domain name, registered for a yearly fee, so people can find it. Web hosting: a server, connected to the internet day and night, that stores the files and sends them out. And the files themselves. When you type the address, your browser asks DNS which server holds the site, requests the page and draws it on your screen.
Some sites are static: the same files go to everyone, which is cheap and fast. Others are dynamic: the server builds each page on the spot, so you see your own inbox or your own shopping cart. The first website went online at CERN in 1991. Today you can build one without code, with tools like WordPress, or write every line yourself.
Keep in mind
- A website is a set of pages under one domain name.
- It needs a domain, hosting and the files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
- Static sites send the same files to everyone; dynamic sites build pages per visitor.
- The first website went online at CERN in 1991.
