[thelist] question - homepage? webpage? website

Ben Henick persist1 at io.com
Thu Jan 17 18:40:39 CST 2002


On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Marc Seyon wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I'm wondering how my fellow evolters weigh in on this. Essentially one can
> say these three terms are roughly synoymous, but my personal preference is
> a more precise definition for each
>
> website (website) - the entire site

Me too.

> webpage (webpage) - a single (HTML) document; many webpages comprise a website

Eh.  I usually refer to them as documents rather than pages, except for:

> homepage (home page) - the first or main webpage on a website

Me too.

What I find myself pondering more frequently is, do you express these
terms as single compound words, or two word phrases?


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