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A website, also written as web site,
or simply site, is a set of related web pages typically served from a single
web domain. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via anetwork such as the Internet or a private local area network through an
Internet address known as a Uniform resource locator. All publicly accessible
websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.
A webpage is a document,
typically written in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML). A webpage may incorporate elements
from other websites with suitable markup anchors.
Webpages are accessed and
transported with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which may optionally
employ encryption (HTTP Secure, HTTPS) to provide security and privacy for the
user of the webpage content. The user's application, often a web browser,
renders the page content according to its HTML markup instructions onto a
display terminal.
The pages of a
website can usually be accessed from a simple Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
called the web address. The URLs of the pages organize them into a hierarchy,
although hyperlinking between them conveys the reader's perceived site
structure and guides the reader's navigation of the site which generally
includes a home page with most of the links to the site's web content, and a
supplementary about, contact and link page.
Some websites require a
subscription to access some or all of their content. Examples of subscription
websites include many business sites, parts of news websites, academic journal
websites, gaming websites, file-sharing websites, message boards, web-based
email, social networking websites, websites providing real-time stock market
data, and websites providing various other services (e.g., websites offering
storing and/or sharing of images, files and so forth).
A blog (a
truncation of the expression weblog) is a discussion or informational site
published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries
("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the
most recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a
single individual[citation needed], occasionally of a small group, and often
covered a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs)
have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and
professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities,
think tanks, advocacy groups and similar institutions account for an increasing
quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging"
systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into societal newstreams.
Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
The emergence and growth of blogs
in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that
facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users. (Previously, a
knowledge of such technologies as HTML and FTP had been required to publish
content on the Web.)
A majority are
interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other
via GUI widgets on the blogs, and it is this interactivity that distinguishes
them from other static websites. In that sense, blogging can be seen as a
form of social networking service. Indeed, bloggers do not only produce content
to post on their blogs, but also build social relations with their readers and
other bloggers. There are high-readership blogs which do not allow comments,
such as Daring Fireball.
Many blogs provide commentary on
a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries; others
function more as online brand advertising of a particular individual or
company. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web
pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave
comments in an interactive format is an important contribution to the
popularity of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus
on art (art blogs), photographs (photoblogs), videos (video blogs or
"vlogs"), music (MP3 blogs), and audio (podcasts). Microblogging is
another type of blogging, featuring very short posts. In education, blogs can
be used as instructional resources. These blogs are referred to as edublogs.
On 16 February
2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence. On 20 February
2014, there were around 172 million Tumblr and 75.8 million WordPress
blogs in existence worldwide. According to critics and other bloggers, Blogger
is the most popular blogging service used today, however Blogger does not offer
public statistics. Technorati has 1.3 million blogs as of February 22,
2014
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