In simple terms, a website is your own space in cyber world that helps create awareness about yourself, your products or services. You have complete control over how much information you want to share, with the help of text, graphics, images, sound, videos and every other digital format available. Broadly, websites are divided into these four categories – personal, commercial, government, and non-profit. Personal websites belong to individuals who wish to communicate with the world on any and every topic under the sun. Commercial or business websites are those that belong to companies or individuals who have some kind of product or services to offer.
A website is useful for all, and the best part is that the size of your business has nothing to do with having a website. From huge conglomerates with global presence to people running home businesses, a website can help everyone with the same amount of effectiveness. Thus it is very important that you have a website the actively promotes your business, is impeccably designed, and always well maintained.
A website is home to what are known as web pages, and the first page of any website is called the 'home page'. This is where one gets a basic idea of what the website is all about. From there, links are provided to access other web pages which belong to that website and supply specific and in-depth information. The number of web pages under a single website can be anywhere from one to tens of thousands, depending on the purpose of the website. There are links to other sites available from any given website, which makes sharing of information that much easier. Technically, a website is accessed from an URL or Uniform Resource Loader, which is the home page mentioned earlier. From there it takes the visitor to other URLs with the help of hyperlinks. There are several languages used to write websites, ranging from the simple one called HTML to more complex ones like server PHP, ASP.NET, JAVA, XML, AJAX and many others. The hosting of a website is taken care of by a web or HTTP server. Thanks to the incredible technological advancements, today a website can be reached not only anytime, but even while on the go.
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