Web page

Wikipedia is a website

A web page, electronic page, digital page or cyberpage is a complex digital document, that can integrate and/or contain text, sound, video, programs, links, images, hyperlinks and other elements, adapted for the World Wide Web (WWW), and that can be accessed and viewed through a web browser. This information is usually found in HTML or XHTML markup, and may provide access to other web pages via hypertext links. They often also include other resources such as cascading style sheets, scripts, digital images, etc.

Web pages may be stored on a computer or on a remote web server. The web server can restrict access only to private networks, for example, on a corporate intranet, or it can publish the pages on the World Wide Web. That is, it is used to access pages from different social networks to access it you need One account

Features and types of pages

Street Cartel "WWW", in the Technological Science Park of the University of Alcalá.

A web page is mainly composed of information on a feasible topic (text only or multimedia modules) as well as hyperlinks; It can also contain or associate a style sheet, style data to specify how it should be displayed, and also embedded applications to allow interaction.

Web pages are written in a markup language that provides the ability to manage and insert hyperlinks, usually HTML.

Regarding the structure of web pages, some organizations, especially the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), usually establish directives with the intention of standardizing the design, and thus facilitating and simplifying the visualization and interpretation of the content.

A web page is essentially a digital business card, whether for companies, organizations, or people, as well as a way to communicate ideas, thoughts, knowledge, information, or theories. Likewise, the new trend guides that web pages are not only attractive to Internet users, but also optimized (prepared) for search engines through the source code. Forcing this double function can, however, create conflicts regarding the quality of the content.

Correct use of the term "web page"

It is common to see people refer to "web page" to a complete website. Strictly speaking, this is incorrect since "web page" refers to a specific page, with a specific URL and not to an entire site made up of multiple web pages with different URLs.

Static pages vs dynamic pages

The content of a web page can be predetermined (static web page) or generated when viewing it, or request it from a web server (dynamic web page).

In the case of static pages, when accessed by the user, the server simply downloads a simple file with HTML-encoded content that is then displayed in your browser. A process very similar to downloading any file, for example a PDF document.

The main problem with these pages is that they do not allow user interaction, equivalent to a collection of invariant documents, like a book, on the web.

The dynamic pages that are generated at the time of display. They are not a simple HTML document, but they are created in some interpreted language. The most popular example is PHP, the language in which very popular applications such as WordPress or MediaWiki are programmed, the software in which Wikipedia itself is implemented.

Here the web interacts with the user and it is necessary to compose the pages dynamically. For example: when a user searches for certain products, the application performs a query to its database, obtains the results and composes with them "on the fly" the HTML that corresponds to the list of products. Once the entire page's HTML is dynamically composed, it is returned to the browser exactly as if it had been a static HTML page.

JavaScript

On the other hand, there is the possibility of introducing dynamism on the client side through the JavaScript language, designed specifically for web browsers. User interface controls such as trees or tables with paging functions are usually written in JavaScript.

Browsers and other web technologies

A web browser can have a graphical user interface, such as Internet Explorer / Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera, or it can be text-based, such as Lynx.

Web users with disabilities often use assistive technologies and adaptive strategies to access web pages. Users may be color blind, may or may not want to use a mouse perhaps due to repetitive stress injury or motor neurone problems, may be deaf and require audio captioning, may be blind and use a screen reader or braille display, may need screen magnification etc.

Disabled and able-bodied users may disable downloading and viewing of images and other media, to save time, network bandwidth, or simply to simplify their browsing experience. Mobile device users often have restricted screens and bandwidth. Anyone can prefer not to use the fonts, font sizes, styles, and color schemes selected by the web page designer and can apply their own CSS styling to the page. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) recommend that web pages be designed with all of these options in mind.

Creating and editing web pages

The simplest way to create web pages is to use a simple text editor such as Notepad++ and directly edit the HTML plus style sheets. It is the way in which most web pages were created in the early days of the Internet.

CMS Systems

This "handcrafted" it is unproductive due to the large amount of HTML coding involved and, furthermore, it is only useful for completely static websites. It does not allow you to implement things such as, for example, a reader comments section like those that are common in blogs or digital newspapers.

For this reason, CMS systems emerged, such as Wordpress and Joomla, which spare the user HTML coding and offer tools such as visual editors that turn the task of creating web pages into something similar to editing a document in an office application such as OpenOffice or Microsoft Word.

These tools are web applications created with programming languages like PHP and that use databases like MySQL that not only allow a more comfortable edition of the contents, but also implement dynamic websites.

Among these systems, the tools for creating blogs stand out as being the most popular, led by the CMS Blogger WordPress.

WordPress in particular, in addition to being the leading tool for blogging, is becoming the most widely used tool for building small and medium-sized websites.