A Web site is a whole of Web pages hyperliées between them and put on line at a Adresse Web. One says also Internet site by Métonymie, the World Wide Web resting on Internet. In 2006, the Web exceeded them: 100000000 of Web sites.
Creation
Each Web site has an owner, Entreprise, Administration, association, private individual, etc the owner chooses the Adresse Web to which the site is accessible. The creation of a Web site can be entrusted to a Agence Web. The setting on line can be entrusted to a Hébergeur Web, which has many computers, the Web servers, continuously connected to Internet.
Structure of the pages
A Web site is a coherent whole of pages, which all can be consulted while following Hyperlien S inside the site. The Adresse Web of a site corresponds in fact to URL of a Web page, designed to be the consulted first: the page of entry or Banner page of the site. The consultation of the pages of a site is called a visit , because the Hyperlien S between the pages make it possible to consult all the pages of the site without the to leave (without having to consult a Web page out of the site). It should however be noted that a visit can start with any page, particularly when its URL is given by a Search engine. Technically, nothing distinguishes the page from entry of another page.
Many Web sites
In time
The number of Web sites is in constant progression and fulgurating :
According to the size and type of company
The number of sites increased quickly in 2005 and 2006 because of the growing popularity of the Blog S, the personal pages and the sites of small companies.
According to the countries
In July 2002, the Statistical , of many sites per capita, shows a very strong disparity between the countries:
See: Many Web sites by country
The Web is a way of diffusing the Culture of a country.
Technologies
The Technologie S implemented for a Web site are multiple. One can classify them as follows:
Communication protocols
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secured (HTTPS)
Formats of contents Web
Formats of documents
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML);
Graphic formats
Certain formats of images are used to decorate the pages and are recognized by all the navigator S: Graphics Interchanges Format (GIF), JPEG Spins Interchange Format (JFIF) and Portable Network Graphics (png); (in 2006 the format SVG is still in the course of implementation).
Other formats
Other formats often used require a Plug-in on the navigator to function:- Applet S Java
- Macromedia Flash
- SVG
Technologies waiter
Technologies used on the side of the Web server lodging the site:- Server Side Includes (IF);
- (PHP);
- JavaServer Pages (JSP), and more recently the JavaServer Faces (JSF)
- Scripts cgi (in Perl, Python, C, etc)
- Base of data S
- Activates server pages (ASP)
Categories of Web sites
Small selection of the principal sites according to their category: ; Search engine: AltaVista, Google, Microsoft Network, Yahoo! ; Directory Web: Open Directory Project, Yahoo!, Prestigium.com, AboutUs.org ; E-business: Amazon.com, EBay, Kelkoo ; Email: Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!, No-log ; Radio operator Internet: Radio-France, Radio-Canada, BBC ; Forum Internet: Slashdot ; Wiki: Wikipédia ; Others: Cryptome, Indymedia, Eurobilltracker, Webring
See too
Related articles
- Gate Web
- Web page
- Banner page
- Design of Web sites
- Programming Web
- Web design
- World Wide Web
- Referencing
- Monitoring of Web site
External bonds
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World Wide Web Consortium
Simple: Website
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