websites
websites
A website, also written Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of
related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website
is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the
Internet or a private local area network through an Internet address known as
a Uniform Resource Locator. All publicly accessible websites collectively
constitute the World Wide Web.
Web pages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP), which may optionally employ encryption (HTTP Secure,
HTTPS) to provide security and privacy for the user of the web page content.
The user's application, often a web browser, renders the page content
according to its HTML markup instructions onto a display terminal.
The World Wide Web (WWW) was created in 1990
by CERN physicist Tim Berners-Lee. On 30 April
1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web
would be free to use for anyone. Before the
introduction of HTML and HTTP, other protocols
such as File Transfer Protocol and the gopher
protocol were used to retrieve individual files from a
server. These protocols offer a simple directory
structure which the user navigates and chooses files
to download. Documents were most often presented
as plain text files without formatting, or were encoded
in word processor formats.
A static website is one that has web pages stored on
the server in the format that is sent to a client web
browser. It is primarily coded in Hypertext Markup
Language, HTML.