What is a website?
 

A website is a collection of web pages or documents which are:

  • Linked to each other (words or images in each document are active, so that clicking on an active area will link one web page to another web page. We call these hyperlinks);
  • Located on a web server (a computer set up to make these documents available on the World Wide web);
  • Available on the Internet to anyone who has access.

This CD and its contents have been designed to function just as a website would. The difference is that the information has been located on this CD, instead of on the Internet. This gives you the opportunity to work through these modules without having to pay telephone costs for Internet access.

The opening screen of a website is called a Home page. Sometimes, a home page is also described as a:

  • Title page, or
  • Contents page.

This is an example of a home page:

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On the home page of the Sinethemba Senior Secondary School you will see three main features:

  1. A Title
  2. A list of Contents for the website
  3. An attractive and appropriate visual (picture)

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Click here to browse the Sinethemba website (it is stored on this CD for your convenience).

 

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