A presence on the World Wide Web. To qualify as a bona fide Web site, it must be available on the Internet around the clock. A Web site is a collection of Web pages, which are documents coded in HTML that are linked to each other and very often to pages on other Web sites. A Web site is run (hosted) on a Web server by the site's owner or by a third-party Internet service provider (ISP). See Web hosting and Web server.
Web Sites by Other Names
A "portal" is a Web site that covers a topic or industry, while "search engines" are sites that index all the content on the Web. "Social networking sites," "blogs" and "wikis" are sites that contain user-generated content. An "extranet" is a password-protected Web site for subscribers or business partners. See portal, search engine, social networking site, blog, wiki, extranet and intranet.
All of the above Web sites are exposed to the general public via the Internet, whereas an "intra-net" is a private, internal Web site that resides behind the company's firewall for employees only (see intranet). See Web vs. Internet, Internet domain name,
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