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Some (parts of) websites require a subscription, with a fee to be paid e.g. every month, or just a free registration. Examples include many Internet pornography sites, parts of many news sites, gaming sites, and sites providing real-time stock market data.
A website will often be the work of one person, one organization, or on a particular topic, or have a particular purpose. This is quite a blurry definition, given the hypertext nature of the web: the whole of Wikipedia forms a website, but whether the Meta-Wikipedia pages are part of the same website or a sister website is open to debate.
Web sites are written in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and are accessed using special software called web browsers. PluginA plugin (or plug-in is a computer program that can, or must, interact with another program to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. Typical examples are plugins to display specific graphic formats (e. SVG if the browser doesn´t include thiss are available for browsers which allow them to show active content, such as FlashMacromedia Flash or Flash is a graphics animation program, written and marketed by Macromedia, that uses vector graphics. The resulting files, sometimes called "flash files", may appear in a web page to view in a web browser, or standalone players Flash p, ShockwaveMacromedia Shockwave is a tool frequently confused with Macromedia Flash. Indeed, a previous version of this page merely redirected to Macromedia Flash. However, there are still (as of 2004) still distinct browers available from Macromedia. Flash files ca or appletAn applet is a small program that runs in the context of a larger program on a client computer. Nowadays this usually refers to Java applets, which run in a browser, though it is possible the introduction of the term in AppleScript in 1993 slightly predats written in JavaJava is an object-oriented programming language developed primarily by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. The language, initially called Oak (named after the oak trees outside Gosling's office), was intended to replace C++, although the fea. Some interactive content may also be generated with JavaScriptJavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language commonly used in websites. It was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape Communications under the name Mocha and then LiveScript but then renamed to "JavaScript" and given a syntax closer to th, support for which is built-in for most browsers. An emerging standard called Dynamic HTML is starting to make an appearance, though no standard has been formally adopted yet.
There are numerous types of websites, each specializing in a particular service or use. A few types of websites include:
Many websites are a mixture of types. For example, a business web site may promote the business's products, but may also host informative documents, such as white papers. There are also numerous sub-categories to the ones listed above. For example, a porn site is a specific type of eCommerce site or business site (that is, it is trying to sell memberships for access to its site). A fan site may be a vanity site on which the administrator is paying homage to a celebrity.
Many business websites, have all the appearance of brochure s—that is an advertisement that can be strolled around. Some websites act as vehicles to communicate with other people via webchat.
The content of a website is constrained by the hosting computer's power, and also legally, e.g. by copyright, pornography laws, etc.
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