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Subject:Re: Is "WebTop" a real word? From:Janet Valade <janetv -at- SYSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:09:40 -0700
According to www.webopedia.com:
Web site
A site (location) on the World Wide Web. Each Web site contains a home page,
which is
the first document users see when they enter the site. The site might also
contain additional
documents and files. Each site is owned and managed by an individual,
company or
organization.
According to www.whatis.com:
A Web site is a related collection of Web files that includes a beginning
file called a home
page. A company or an individual tells you how to get to their Web site by
giving you the
address of their home page. From the home page, you can get to all the other
pages on
their site. For example, the Web site for IBM has the home page address of http://www.ibm.com. (The home page address actually includes a specific file
name like
index.html but, as in IBM's case, when a standard default name is set up,
users don't have
to enter the file name.) IBM's home page address leads to thousands of
pages. (But a Web site can also be just
a few pages.)
1. The top-level entry point web page relating to an individual or
institution, or possibly a subject area. This often has a
URL consisting of just a hostname, e.g. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/. All other
pages on a web site are usually accessible by following links from the home
page.