Definition of Web Site

Definition of Web Site

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Web Site
A web site is a collection of images, text, animation, graphics, and other elements that are displayed on individual pages, called web pages, presented in a collection.  The collection of pages are programmed to interconnect with one another forming a site.  These larger units can be linked to one another directly or be gathered together in a searchable form. Each site is given a unique, name, called a URL.  It is the URL that allows people to get to a specific site by addressing their web browser to the specified destination.

Dynamic Name servers, also called DNS servers, direct the browser to the server that contains the requested web site. There are Millions of DNS servers around the world, all connected to one another via the internet. 

A web site "lives" on a computer called a web server.  There are millions of web servers around the world, each with unique addresses, also called IP addresses.  These servers know the names, or URLs of all of the web sites they contain.