We explain what a Web page is and what this digital document is for. Also, the types that exist and what is a Web browser.
What is a web page?
A web page, electronic page or digital page is known as a digital document of a multimedia nature (that is, capable of including audio, video, text and their combinations), adapted to World Wide Web standards (WWW) and which can be accessed through a Web navigator and an active connection to Internet. It is the basic content format on the web.
On the Internet there are more than one billion Web pages of various kinds and diverse content, coming from all over the world and in the main languages spoken. This represents the main archive from information of the humanity that currently exists, stored along thousands of servers throughout the planet, which can be accessed quickly thanks to a system of communication protocols (HTTP).
In many cases, access to a Web page or its specific content may be subject to prohibitions, commercial payments or other types of methods identification (such as online registration).
The content of this immense virtual library is not fully supervised, in addition, and its regulation represents a challenge and a debate for the institutions traditional parts of mankind, such as the family, the school or even the laws of the countries.
Web pages are programmed in an HTML or XHTML format, and are characterized by their relationship between one and the other through hyperlinks: links to various content that allow a complex, simultaneous and diverse reading, very different from what we can find in books and magazines.
Finally, it is not the same to talk about a Web page (Webpage) and of website (Website), since the latter contain a variable number of the former.
What is a web page for?
Web pages basically fulfill the task of providing information of any kind and in any style or degree of formality.
Some, at the same time, allow different degrees of interaction between users or with an institution, such as forum pages, dating services or social networks, the pages of purchase and sale of goods, the pages of consultation or contact with Business, government institutions or withNGOs, and even specialized technical support pages.
In principle, the functions of a Web page are as broad as the demand of the users and the offer of its creators.
Web page types
There are two types of Web page, depending on the way its content is generated:
- Static web pages. They operate by downloading a file programmed in code HTML, which contains all the instructions for the browser to rebuild the Web page, accessing the locations of its elements and following a rigid, preconceived order that does not allow interaction with the user. These types of pages are merely informative, documentary, not interactive.
- Dynamic web pages. Unlike the previous ones, dynamic web pages are generated at the moment of user access, using some language interpreted (such as PHP), which allows it to receive requests from the user, process them in databases and offer a response according to your requirements.
Web navigator
A web browser is a app software used to open Web pages both from a local path (such as the hard drive) or from the Internet.
They are known as "browsers" or "explorers", from the metaphor That the Net it is a vast and crowded place, for which you need a platform.
In this sense, Web browsers allow us to "enter" the Internet and view different content by entering addresses. Url or the use of online data search services (known as Web search engines).