What is a website?
A website [1] or Web site is a collection of related network web resources , such as web pages , multimedia content, which are typically identified with a common domain name , and published on at least one web server . Notable examples are wikipedia.org , google.com , and amazon.com . Websites can be accessed via a public Internet Protocol (IP) network, such as the Internet , or a private local area network (LAN), by a uniform resource locator (URL) that identifies the site. Websites can have many functions and can be used in various fashions; a website can be a personal website , a corporate website for a company, a government website, an organization website, etc. Websites are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, ranging from entertainment and social networking to providing news and education. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web , while private websites, such as a company's website for its emplo