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A website, also written Web site, web site, or
simply site, is a group of Web pages and related
text, databases, graphics, audio, and video files
that are served up by a Web server to present
information.
A web page is a document, typically written in
plain text interspersed with formatting instructions
of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML).
A web page may incorporate elements from other
websites with suitable markup anchors.
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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.
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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.
Simple forms or marketing examples of websites,
such as classic website, a five-page website or a
brochure website are often static websites, because
they present pre-defined, static information to the
user. This may include information about a
company and its products and services via text,
photos, animations, audio/video and interactive
menus and navigation.
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A dynamic website is one that changes or
customizes itself frequently and automatically,
based on certain criteria.
Dynamic websites can have two types of
dynamic activity: Code and Content. Dynamic
code is invisible or behind the scenes and
dynamic content is visible or fully displayed.
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Offers a variety of Internet services
Examples of services:
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News
Sports
Search engine/directory
Web publishing
Reference tools
Maps
Shopping
Email
Examples of portals:
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AltaVista, AOL, Lycos, MSN, Netscape, Yahoo!
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Contains newsworthy material
Contain stories and articles related to some of
the following:
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Life, money, current events, weather
Examples:
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WSB-tv
NBC.com
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Promotes or sells a product
Many examples
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Offers exciting, challenging avenues for formal
and informal teaching and learning
Online training for a new skill
Online courses
Online college classes
Examples
UGA
 Phoenix University
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Interactive and engaging
Offer music, video, games, sports, chats,
sweepstakes
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Describes a cause, opinion, or idea
Presents views of a group of people or
organizations
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Short for webblog
Time-stamped articles or posts, in a diary type
format
Vblog – a blog that contains video
Blogosphere – worldwide collection of blogs
Vlogosphere – all vblogs worldwide
Reflect interest, opinions and personalities of
the author
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Encourages members in the group to share
interest, ideas, stories, photos, music, and
videos with other users
Popular examples:
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Facebook
MySpace (12 million visitors a day)
Media Sharing Web site – different
Allows members to share photos, music, and videos
 ShutterFly, Flickr – popular sites
 GoogleVideo and YouTube are example for video
sharing sites
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Private individual or family created
People publish personal web pages for a
variety of reasons:
Job hunting
 Share personal experiences
 Family histories
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Most websites could fit in this type of
website to some extent many of them are not
necessarily for commercial purposes
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A website that indexes material on the
internet or an intranet (and lately on traditional
media such as books and newspapers)and
provides links to information as a response to a
query.
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Used to preserve valuable electronic content
threatened with extinction. Two examples are:
Internet Archive and Google Groups