What is a good website?

A Website is a related collection of World Wide Web (WWW) files that includes a beginning file called a home page. A website is central location of various web pages that are all related and can be accessed by visiting the home page using a browser.

The first website was build at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee and put online August 6, 1991. On 30April 1993,CERN announced that the World Wide Would be free to use for anyone.

Virtual location on WWW, containing several subject or company related webpages and data files accessible through a browser. Each website has its own unique web address which can be reached through an internet connection. The opening page of a website is usually called homepage which contains hyperlinks to other pages on the same or other site. A single web server may support multiple websites and a single website may reside on multiple web servers, sometimes thousands of miles apart.

Webpages are written in a language called Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). HTML tells web browsers what information to display and how to format it. Webpages are stored on a server, which is a network of computers designed to store websites.

The pages of a website can usually be accessed from a simple Uniform Resource Locator (URL) called the web address.