Web Presence

A Web presence (or Website) is a collection of Web files on a particular subject that includes a beginning file called a home page. For example, most companies, organizations, or individuals that have Websites have a single address that they give you. This is their home page address. From the home page, you can get to all the other pages on their site. For example, the Web site for III Realms Web design has the home page address of http://www.iiirealms.com. (In this case, the actual file name of the home page file doesn't have to be included because III Realms Web Design has named this file index.html and told the server that this address really means http://www.iiirealms.com/index.html.) Conversely this same rule also applies to index.php as long as it has been applied in the server configuartion files that index.php can act as a home page

Since it sounds like geography is involved, a Website is rather easily confused with a Web server. A server in this context is a computer that holds the files for one or more sites. On one hand, a very large Website may reside on a number of servers that may in different geographic locations. Microsoft is a good example; its Website consists of thousands of files spread out over many servers in world-wide locations. But a more typical example is probably the site you are looking at. We reside on a commercial space provider's server with a number of other sites that mat or may not have anything to do with Web Design.

Developing a web presence has many practical advantages: