What is a Website?

A website in simple words is normally described as a collection or you may say set of web pages as well as videos and related images or any other digital assets that are intentionally addressed as in relation of a commonly known URL or in other words you may say Uniform Resource Locator.
URL or in other words Uniform Resource Locator is normally consisted of the name known as domain name but in some cases IP addresses are also used to represent URL and sometime only root path or you may say “/” is also used to give any value to a URL in a network of IP-based.

At least one web server is brought into usage in intention of hosting a website which actually has collection of above mentioned items i.e. web pages and / or videos and images. This web server is actually made accessible from a typical network which is known as Internet network or sometime a local area network which is made to be accessed for private use only.

A web page, which normally is recognized being an important or you may say compulsory part of any website, is typically designed or written in the format known as plain text format in which formatting instruction are also used that actually are derived generally from HTML or XHTML.


Markup anchors are suitably used in creation of any webpage to be stored in any website just in intention of incorporating elements from any other web page or website. Hypertext Transfer Protocol is generally or commonly utilized in intention of accessing any web page of any website which sometime provides security or privacy to web page by employing encryption i.e. HTTPS or you may say HTTP Secure.

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