Website

A web site (english [ wɛbsaɪt ]; . V. engl site, place ',' space ',' place ' and from Latin situs, location ' or ' position ') - in the German language and web presence ( website ), web presence ( website ) called web site ( internet service ) and Internet platform ( web platform ) - is a virtual space on the World Wide Web, at which usually several web pages ( files), and other resources are located. These are usually summarized by a single navigation ( hypertext procedures ) and linked.

Definition

A website includes all private providers or companies belonging websites and any downloadable documents on the WWW, which are grouped under a specific domain. Finally, the web site is a medium in order to communicate over the Internet. Using a variety of communication deals to build a website on a relationship between the provider, the provider and the user ( users ) of the website.

The transition of the spelling of World Wide Web Site to a single, lowercase word in the English website reflects the typical development of technical terms. This development is based to the extent that the typeface rather takes the form without a hyphen to become more familiar to the public. Likewise, there is an increasing preference for closed forms like just website, homepage, online, etc.

Leading news agencies such as Reuters and The Chicago Manual recommend in English spelling website. Among leading dictionaries such as the Canadian Oxford Dictionary and other encyclopedias, the typeface is also used website.

For large Internet companies such as Google and Apple using the notation can be seen website. However, Microsoft uses both spellings, both website and web site.

Website, web presence and internet platform, website and Internet presence are generally used interchangeably. In professional discourse sometimes Internet presence ( web applications services / daemons, such as FTP and e-mail) is broader than web presence ( web applications only ). While internet platform is generally used synonymously with website, web platform is often used only in a proportion of cases synonymous with website, see disambiguation page web platform.

History

The first site that went online, so to speak, was created and published on 13 November 1990 by the busy scientists at CERN, Tim Berners- Lee. On April 30, 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web will be freely available to everyone.

Components

A website in the simplest case, at least from an HTML file that is located in a directory in the path of a domain. In general it is today but made ​​up of many HTML files that can be accommodated in a nested directory structure. Also note that an HTML file itself is usually from a file with the extension html or htm and also a directory of the same name, in which the non -compliant HTML elements (images, media, etc.) are housed. .; This information can include files using the CSS class typing and various scripting (JavaScript) files.

So, the situation is at least if the displayed page is stored by the browser on the hard drive of the visitor; they may be internally generated synthetically completely through scripting languages ​​and database content, so that the existence of a real file is only feigned (partly because of exactly what it promises better positions in search engines ). CSS and JavaScript files are typically defined centrally for a website and even set at mass hosters by the provider for the entire web space.

A home page is the page of a web presence that is created as a central focal point. The home page (also entry, index page ) is the first requested page of a website. In most cases, the home page is the home page of a website. However, in special cases it is preceded by an intro page. This is usually because then a frame solution is shown, the detection by search engines is often not optimal. The intro should then deliver on for the visitors invisible, certain content for search engines and keywords, the necessary information, provided that the following pages for this remain invisible. Therefore, the intro often appears extremely spartan and says to the visitor from nothing; it is often perceived as a nuisance and an obstacle. In many cases, an attempt is made to deal with the flash animations, however, are regarded by many visitors as well as unreasonable and a waste of time. In response, a link is usually offered to skip.

Technical implementation

Sites are mainly written in the platform-independent markup language HTML or XHTML to ensure that they can be displayed by all browsers as possible. Today websites are designed with CSS, because they allow a simple design of content that has been structured using HTML or XHTML. For more complex sites generating the HTML source code is usually done using server-side script (PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, VBScript) or programming languages ​​( Java), which, among other things, the use of database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) allow. Often, client-side scripting languages ​​such as JavaScript are used, which are normally used more for user interaction than for the complete creation of a website. Server-side scripts or programs produce as output preferably HTML text, which is then rendered by the user's browser. The website is stored on a web server, which is often operated in a data center of a so-called web hosts and leased to the owner of the website.

The development of websites is called web design or web authoring.

Purposes

Financing is often facilitated by ads.

Most frequently requested sites

The 18 most visited sites are:

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