Website
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A website is a set of webpages that are joined together. People look at websites with a computer of some kind, sometimes including the computer inside mobile telephones and televisions. The websites are kept on computers called web servers.
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[change] Structure
[change] Homepage
There is almost always a single homepage which has links to other pages that are part of that "site." Sometimes it has links to pages that are part of other "sites" as well. (Note that net jargon uses the word site, which also means a physical place in the real world, to mean a web URL.)
[change] Uses
Websites can be used to advertise or sell things. They can also be used to talk to other people. A blog is a website where the location of the material is less relevant than who writes it, and which is more focused on dialogue. Very often the people who use blogs dislike the word "site" since it implies a controlled place. Sites are good for looking up information on the computer.
[change] A wiki
A wiki is a website where people who visit it can edit its contents. Wikipedia.org is a wiki.
Sometimes, only certain people can edit a wiki. Other times, anyone can.
[change] Access
Users can access any website by using a URL. This is the website address which is shown near the top of the web browser. The homepage and the rest of the site usually have the same words at the start of the URL - for instance, pages at the Simple English Wikipedia always start "http://simple.wikipedia.org/..." but are different after that.
[change] Appearence
Web sites are usually shown in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) but are not always written or kept that way - some use WAP and others use XML.
