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What are websites and how do they work

A website is a digital document that can be invoked through a Web browser from a server. The essential feature of a website is that they are filled with information and provide further references (hyperlinks) to other sites in turn. The term "website" is often confused with "Website". A website is the single document, whereas a website is the complete Internet presence.

On 13 November 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee created the first website, which he wrote at that time on a NeXT computer. The system could then only display text. Its development was then known as the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW). When in 1993 the first known graphics-capable browser "Mosaic" came on the market, which was created by Marc Andreessen, got the internet several Populariät Galang and an explosive growth of the Internet and websites.

Web pages can contain static or dynamic content. Static content is information which are anchored firmly in the Web page document. Dynamic content on the other hand are regenerated each time you update the page and often come from other sources, documents, databases and scripts. This is useful if a website's content must be kept up to date. Another example of dynamic Web pages are interactive contact forms, search boxes, or entire shop systems, in which the user can search for information themselves the entire web site or with the operator of the site can get in touch or even, as is normal these days, may purchase goods. Description languages such as for dynamic websites often PHP or JavaScript are used. Quickly made the Internet a universal platform for all types of applications and media in which the advantage is clearly in the independence of operating systems. All you need is a connec to the Internet and a Web browser. Nowadays the trend is strong there that Web pages in a built up "Content Management System", which gives the administrator of the website the opportunity, without any knowledge of markup languages like HTML, CSS and PHP to maintain the content of their online presence.

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