Talk:Website
From Academic Kids
When I've taught web site design, I always began be telling the students that a web site consists of three elements:
- the address, like http://www.edpoor.com
- the server, where the content resides
- the content, which is what the user sees
"The limit of a website is the limit to a computer's power and the limit of copyright": this should be rephrased, as it ignores that many people illegally violate copyright on the internet. --Daniel C. Boyer
Should acknowledge that content can be included on a website that is not inline (though maybe this belongs in another article), such as PowerPoint presentations. --Daniel C. Boyer 20:24, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
What about communities or forums as a type of a website? --Ajvanari 21:38, 24 May 2004 (UTC)
Web site is two words and Web is capitalized.
- This is correct. Would anyone object if I moved this page to Web site? Jason One 23:54, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- See discussion below re: consensus/google. --Overand 20:22, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
How long does a website last? I've heard the typical lifetime of a website is between three and six years, but I can't find any research about the subject.
Media does NOT use "website"
The use of "website" by "newspapers and other media" is utterly incorrect. Most newspapers and other media use "Web site". AP Style, as well as several other authorities, forbid "website". The only mainstream media that uses "website" that comes to mind immediately is WIRED Magazine, which made the controversial change relatively recently. (Forgot to log in. I posted this.)
- Correct. Most news media do indeed use "Web site".
- http://news.google.com/news?q=website
- http://news.google.com/news?q=%22web%20site%22
- Googling 'web site' (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=web+site&btnG=Google+Search) Will return google suggesting you search for website instead. Looks like there isn't a very good consensus here.--Overand 20:16, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
- Also worth note is the difference between the google results of Web site and website. Microsoft.com's Web site (http://www.microsoft.com) as opposed to the Python Language Website (http://www.python.org/). --Overand 20:25, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
Website vs. Advertising/Malware
There's a bit of discussion about the pitfalls of modern web browser, cursor trapping, etc. I think this stuff should be moved to a seperate article, linked to from this one, such as Website Hazards or web browsing hazards. --Overand 20:18, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
