Websites
Websites are made of linked webpages about the same subject. We could
say that websites are like virtual books and the webpages are like the
pages of this book. You can find the “book” by searching for
a homepage. The homepage works like the book’s cover. Whenever you
want to see websites about a specific subject, you should just fill the
homepage’s address in the browser. Technically, the webpages (or
web pages) are HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP from a common
root URL (a homepage).
The webpages are organized into websites by hyperlinks, to give them a unity, making it all one thing. But many times, is hard to define when websites are ended or started as they contain hyperlinks to other websites. Actually, all the webpages and websites are linked together building a gigantic world wide web. (This is why you see the abbreviation WWW before every websites in your browser).
Some websites are free to navigate, and some of them charge you. They might ask you for a subscription to get access to part of the content on a restricted area.
The new generation of website is worried to be more usable. The disability people are slowly getting integrated in the internet. Web designers now have be up to date to this new reality.
With the development of new technologies, the websites can be viewed by many different media, such as mobile objects like cell phones or laptops.
The websites can be owned by a commercial company, an organization or an individual with many different purposes. Among the main types of websites, we could include the affiliate, archive site, blog, commerce site, community site, database, directory, download site, employment site, game site, information site, java applet, mirror, news site, political site, pornography, rating site, review site, search engine, shock site, vanity site and web portal.
A very popular category of websites today is the blog. The blog is used
like a sort of a diary, where anyone can post online. One of the reasons
that make blogs so popular is that it is very easy to use. You just have
to sign for free in any blog company to create your own websites within
a few minutes. They already have some templates to choose from. All you
have to do is upload your images and personal information.