There are 7 basic website terminologies you need to know before your start your digital marketing.
These basic website terminologies will help understand your online business assets and help you communicate better with your web developer or your contracted web marketing agency.
- Website
- Web Page
- Domain Name
- Web Host
- Web Server
- Search Engine
- Web Browser
Website
A website is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), you can access website with a browser in your computer or mobile phone that is connected to the Internet. Often called a “web site” or simply a “site.”
Web Page
The definition of web page is a document, a page on your website typically written in HTML, which is almost always accessible via HTTP, a protocol that transfers information from the Web server to display in the user’s Web browser.
This document can be displayed in a web browser such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Edge, or Apple’s Safari. These are also often called “web pages” or just “pages.”
A web page can embed a variety of different types of resources such as:
- style information — controlling a page’s look-and-feel
- scripts — which add interactivity to the page
- media — images, sounds, and videos.
All web pages available on the web are reachable through a unique address. To access a page, just type its address in your browser address bar:
Domain Names
A Domain Name is a unique ‘web address name’ that is used to direct people to your website across the World Wide Web. You can obtain a domain name thru company that specializes in registering web addresses which are called Domain Registrars.
Domain names are unique. Once you register your domain name, you own it for a limited amount of time from the time you registered at – usually for one to two years at a time.
Web Host
A web host is the computer that has the ability to display the website on the World Wide Web so that everyone can see it worldwide. The web host is a computer, just like you have at home, except that all it does is display websites on the World Wide Web. Web hosting is the service that provides you with the ability to display your website.
Web Server
A web server is a computer hosting one or more websites. “Hosting” means that all the web pages and their supporting files are available on that computer. The web server will send any web page from the website it is hosting to any user’s browser, per user request.
Don’t confuse websites and web servers. For example, if you hear someone say, “My website is not responding”, it actually means that the web server is not responding and therefore the website is not available. More importantly, since a web server can host multiple websites, the term web server is never used to designate a website, as it could cause great confusion. In our previous example, if we said, “My web server is not responding”, it means that no websites on that web server are available.
Search Engine
Search engines are a common source of confusion on the web. A search engine is a special kind of website that helps users find web pages from other websites.
Examples of search engines are Google, Yahoo, Bing and many more.
Web Browser
Many beginners on the web confuse search engines and browsers. Let’s make it clear: A browser is a piece of software that retrieves and displays web pages; a search engine is a website that helps people find web pages from other websites. The confusion arises because, the first time someone launches a browser, the browser displays a search engine’s homepage. This makes sense, because, obviously, the first thing you want to do with a browser is to find a web page to display. Don’t confuse the infrastructure (e.g., the browser) with the service (e.g., the search engine). The distinction will help you quite a bit.
Source: Wikipedia, whatisawebsite.com/