We explain what a web page is and what this digital document is for. Also, the types that exist and what a web browser is.
What is a web page?
A web page, electronic page or digital page is known as a multimedia digital document (i.e. capable of including audio, video, text and their combinations), adapted to World Wide Web (WWW) standards and accessible through a web browser and an active Internet connection. This is the basic format of content on the Internet.
On the Internet there are more than one billion web pages of various types and diverse content, coming from all over the world and in the main spoken languages. This represents humanity's main information archive that currently exists, stored on thousands of servers around the world which can be accessed quickly thanks to a system of communication protocols (HTTP).
In many cases, access to a website or its specific content may be subject to prohibitions, commercial payments or other types of identification methods (such as online registration).
The content of this immense virtual library is not fully supervised, furthermore, and its regulation represents a challenge and a debate for the traditional institutions of humanity, such as the family, the school or even the laws of the countries.
The web pages are programmed in an HTML or XHTML format and are characterized by their relationship between one another through hyperlinks: links to diverse content that allow complex, simultaneous and diverse reading, very different from what we can find in books and magazines.
Finally, it is not the same to talk about a website (webpage) and website (website), since the latter contain a variable number of the former.
- See also: Web 2.0
What is a web page for?
Web pages basically fulfill the task of providing information of any kind and in any style or degree of formality.
Some, at the same time, allow different degrees of interaction between users or with an institution such as forum pages, dating services or social networks, pages for buying and selling goods, pages for consultation or contact with companies, government institutions or NGOs, and even specialized technical support pages.
In principle, the functions of a website are as broad as the demand of users and the supply of its creators.
Types of web page
There are two types of web pages, depending on the way their content is generated:
- Static web pages. They operate by downloading a file programmed in HTML code, which contains all the instructions for the browser to reconstruct the web page, accessing the locations of its elements and following a preconceived, rigid order, which does not allow interaction with the browser. user. These types of pages are merely informative, documentary, not interactive.
- Dynamic web pages. Unlike the previous ones, dynamic web pages are generated at the moment of user access, using some interpreted language (such as PHP), which allows them to receive user requests, process them in databases and offer a response according to your requirements.
web browser
A web browser is a application software used to open web pages both in a local path (such as the hard drive) or from the Internet.
They are known as “browsers” or “explorers”, based on the metaphor that the Internet is a vast and crowded place, for which a platform is needed.
In that sense, web browsers allow us to “enter” the Internet and view different content by entering URL addresses or the use of online data search services (known as web search engines).
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