What is Website?

Every day you visit so many websites, but you don’t know what a website is. Here we’re going to discuss what websites are. How many time do you visit Google & Facebook in a single day? Both of these are the standard example of a website

 To understand a website you need to know about web pages. A web page is a set of data or information which is designed to be viewed as part of a site. A web page may contain text, images, & video.

A website is mainly defined as a collection of the related web page which shares a same domain name or URL. In other words, we can say that a website is web presence or digital presence of your business. A website can be of one web page or may contain thousands of web pages.

If you still have an issue, then we’ll discuss it in another way. Suppose you have a shop which is situated at some place. It means when anyone visits that particular place they’re able to found your shop, in the same way, a website provides a site of your business or shop on the internet.

So that when a person searches or visit the particular domain or URL they found your business or shop on the internet.

Types Of Website

A website is mainly of two types such as

• Static
•  Dynamic

 Static website

•  It is the most basic type of website and easy to create
• It does not require web programming and database designing
• Each page is coded in the HTML
• The static website contains the fixed code hence the content of the page don’t change till it is done manually.

Dynamic Website

• This website shows different content each time it is viewed.
• It is created by using PHP or ASP.
• A dynamic website is easy to maintain hence most of the extensive site is dynamic. The dynamic website use or access information from the database accordingly to change the content webmaster only needs to change or update the database record.
• As it uses database information hence, it is also known as a database-driven website.
• The dynamic website uses client-side scripting or server-side scripting, or both to generate the dynamic content

Difference between Static and Dynamic site

Static Website	Dynamic Website
Always show the same material when the page gets loaded	Content changes regularly
Use HTML code for the development of the website	Use server-side languages such as PHP, ASP.NET, and JSP
It sends the same response for every request	May generate different HTML for each of the requests
The main advantage is flexibility	The central power of this website is CMS, i.e., Content Management System

Now we’ll discuss some necessary things which are required for the creation of a website. Website creation needs

• Domain
• Hosting
• Designing & Development

What is Domain?

The domain is the address of your website. It is also called as URL, i.e., Uniform Resource Locator. Let’s straightforwardly understand the domain.

From which place you belong, your answer will be any place name from which or belongs. Now if I ask you your postal address, you will give me some address. Now suppose your house is a website then the postal address of your home is a domain.

A domain can be purchased from a various website such as GoDaddy, Bigrock, Hostgator, etc. But out of all GoDaddy is the best.

What is Hosting?

Hosting a storage. Hosting is also called web space because it provides the room for your website. A web hosting is of this types which are given below:

Share Hosting

This types of hosting are shared by multiple sites. Shared hosting is also called as virtual shared hosting. It is not for the big website because once the real-time user number exceeded more than 50 the website server get crashed.

• VPS, i.e., Virtual Private Server

VPS stands for the virtual personal server. A physical server is housed in a data center, the location of which depends upon the hosting provider you’re using. A VPS is a portioned part of one of these servers that contain its operating system, bandwidth, and disc space. This types of hosting for that website whose real-time user is in between the 100-1000.

• Dedicated Hosting

This types of hosting are devoted to only one organization. Dedicated hosting is mostly used by those types of the website such as Amazon, Flipkart, etc.

You can also understand hosting straightforwardly. Imagining a house of about two floors if all the room of the house is allocated to the different person then it is the example of shared hosting. If the whole room of the house is assigned to the one person but that person use to share it with the other is called as VPS hosting, and if the whole house is used by only one person then it is regarded as dedicated hosting.

Designing & Development

Web designing is an essential factor in website creation because a good design directs your user where they need to go quickly and easily.

A web design tells about everything regarding a website including the content, the way it looks, the way it works, everything is determined by the web designing.

It is a process of planning, building, and conceptualizing of the electronic files which determine the layout, color, text style, and use of other interactive features that deliver pages to the site visitor.

User Interface (UI)

UI is the designing part which you see on the website or the interaction of the user with the product on the site. Understand it in another way.

Suppose you’re watching television and you to increase the volume in that situation what you do, you use your TV remote and press the volume button to increase the volume of your TV. Hence you’re interacting with your TV.  In the same way, a website UI tells you where to visit or where to click.

Data Access Layer (DAL)

It is a layer of a computer program which provides you the most straightforward access to the data stored in the database. 

Business Application Layer (BAL)

The business Application layer is a protocol which focuses on the process to process communication across an IP network & provides a secure communication interface & end-user services. It offers many services such as

1. Mail Transfer
2. File Transfer
3. Web Surfing
4. Web Chat
5. Email Client
6. Network Data Sharing
7. Virtual Terminals
8. Various File & Data Operations