A website is a collection of webpages which has an unique domain [or IP address] name.
It’s made up of 2 categories of files :
- Code files : Source codes
- Assets : Images, music, videos, etc.
Webpage
It is a document made up of HTML, CSS, JS and other front-end stuff. It can be displayed in a browser.
Webpages embed various resources inside themselves :
- A page’s appearance is determined by its style info.
- Scripts made using JS, ReactJS, etc. make a page interactive.
- Media like images, sounds, etc. can be added to a webpage.
Each webpage in a website has clickable links [called explicit links] that lead to other pages of the same website.
Homepage
The main page of a website is called a homepage.
Domain names
A domain name consists of two parts :
- Top-Level Domain [TLD]
- Label or Secondary-Level Domain [SLD]
Eg : In imissmycafe.com, .com is the TLD and imissmycafe is the label.
Top-Level Domain [TLD]
It indicates the purpose of the service provided by a particular website.
Eg : .com, .in, .io, .gov, etc.
Certain TLDs are used by certain organisations. Government websites use .gov, academic institutions use .edu for their websites, etc.
Local TLDs like .de, .fr, etc. require the domain to be in a particular language [or hosted in a particular country].
Eg : auda.org.au is an Australian website.
Label
It is a case-insensitive [meaning, uppercase or lowercase don’t matter] sequence of character that tells us which page have we landed into.
Eg : app.flocus.com, genshin-impact-map.appsample.com, agar.io, etc.
Web server
It is a computer [or an actual server] that hosts websites. Hosting here means making the website and its files available in the internet. Many websites can be hosted in a single server.
If a website’s down, it means its server is not responding.
Search engine
A search engine is a service that helps you find a website. It can be accessed using a browser.
Eg : Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc.
Browser
It’s a software that retrieves and displays webpages.
Eg : Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.