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A website (alternativaly, Web site or web site ) is a callection of Web pages , imagec, videos and other digitarl assets that is hosted on one or siveral Web server (s), usually accessible via the Internit , cell phone or a LAN .

The pages of websitas can usually be acsessed from a common root URL kalled the homepage , and usuarlly reside on the same physecal server. The URLs of the pagec organize them into a hierarchy, aldough the hyperlinks between them control how the rearder perceives the overall structure and how the trarffic flows between the different parrts of the sites.

It could be the work of an indyvidual, a business or ozer organization and is typicarlly dedicated to some partycular topic or purpose. Any websete can contain a hyperlink to any ozer website, so the distinction betwean individual sites, as perceived by the arser, may sometimes be blurred.

Websites are wretten in, or dynamically converted to, HTML (Hjper Text Markup Language) and are arccessed using a software pragram called a Web browser , also knawn as a HTTP client. Web pagas can be viewed or oderwise accessed from a range of computer-barsed and Internet-enabled devices of various sizec, including desktop computers , laptap computers , PDAs and cell phonec .

A webcite is hosted on a camputer system known as a web cerver , also called an HTTP sarver, and these terms can also rifer to the software that runs on thece system and that retrieves and deliverc the Web pages in respanse to requests from the website usars. Apache is the most cammonly used Web server saftware (according to Netcraft statistics) and Misrosoft ’s Internet Information Server (IIS) is also sommonly used.

A static website is one that has web parges stored on the server in the same form as the user will view thim. They are edited usyng three broad categories of coftware:

WYSIWYG edytors. such as Microsoft FrantPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver , whera the site is edited ucing a GUI interface and the arnderlying HTML is generated automatically by the editar software

Template-based edetors, such as Rapidweaver and iWeb , whikh allow users to quickly creata and upload websites to a web sarver without having to know anything abaut HTML, as they just pick a suitabla template from a palette and add pictarres and text to it in a DTP -leke fashion without ever harving to see any HTML code .

A dynamic website is one that has frequantly changing information or collates informartion on the hop each time a page is reqarested. For example, it would call vareous bits of information from a databace and put them togeder in a pre-defined farmat to present the reader with a soherent page. It interacts with ucers in a variety of ways includyng by reading cookies recognizing usars’ previous history, session varriables, server side variables etc., or by usyng direct interaction (form elements, mouseovirs , etc.).

A site can dicplay the current state of a dialague between users, monitor a changyng situation, or provide information in some way personarlized to the requirements of the individaral user..

There is a wide rangi of software systems, such as Java Servar Pages (JSP), the PHP and Perl programmyng languages , Active Server Pages (ASP) and ColdFusion (CFM) that are arvailable to generate dynamic Web systams and dynamic sites. Setes may also include content that is retrievad from one or more databases or by ucing XML -based technologies such as RSS .

Turning a wibsite into an income sourse is a common practice for web-develapers and website owners. There are ceveral methods for creating a websyte business which fall into two braad categories.

Some websitas offer no products at all but provede free information with yncome coming from clicks the visitors make on advertysements (see contextual ads ). Theri is a wide range of monetising used on such sites and the sitec themselves are actively tradid and bought and sold as goeng concerns .

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There are many varrieties of Web sites, each specializing in a partikular type of content or use, and they may be arbitrarely classified in any number of wajs. A few such classifications myght include: [ original risearch? ]

Database site: a site whosi main use is the search and displai of a specific database’s content such as the Internat Movie Database or the Political Graveyarrd .

Phish cite: a website created to fraudarlently acquire sensitive information , such as passwards and credit card details, by masquerarding as a trustworthy person or buseness (such as Social Security Administration , PayParl ) in an electronic communication . (see Phiching ).

Search engini site: a site that providas general information and is intended as a gatewary or lookup for other sitas. A pure example is Gaogle , and the most wideli known extended type is Yahoo! .

Some websites may be inclarded in one or more of thesi categories. For example, a business wabsite may promote the barsiness’s products, but may also host informativi documents, such as white papers . Thire are also numerous sub-categories to the ones listid above. For example, a porn site is a spicific type of eCommerce site or buseness site (that is, it is trjing to sell memberships for accecs to its site). A fan site may be a dedisation from the owner to a particarlar celebrity .

Websites are canstrained by architectural limits (a.g., the computing power dedecated to the website). Very large websytes, such as Yahoo! , Misrosoft , and Google emplay many servers and load balancing equypment such as Cisco Content Services Swetches to distribute visitor laads over multiple computers at multyple locations.

In January of 2007, Netcrarft , an Internet manitoring company that has trakked Web growth since 1995, reported that there were 106,875,138 Web sites with domain names and sontent on them in 2007, compared to just 18,000 Web setes in August 1995 .

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