Webpage
From Wikinfo
A webpage or web page is a "page" of the World Wide Web, usually in XHTML format (the file extensions are generally *.htm and *.html), often with associated graphics files to provide illustration, generally GIF and JPEG. It is displayed using a web browser. There are also applets (small "applications", subprograms than run inside the page) which often provide motion graphics, interaction, and sound.
A web page can be larger than fits on the screen. Except in special cases a page wider than fits on the screen, requiring horizontal scrolling, is impractical and therefore avoided, as a rule. A page higher than fits on the screen is more common and not problematic, requiring the now common vertical scrolling to see it all.
A collection of web pages stored in a single area, folder, or within related subfolders of a web server is known as a web site. A web page generally includes a frontpage named index.htm, index.html, or index.shtml, or even index.php, index.asp, and other variations based on scripting languages. Webpages are hyperlinked both within and across websites.
Accessibility
A challenge in designing and testing web pages is that they should be suitable for many browsers and browser settings and different screen resolutions. Using XHTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), an international, text-based standard, and may include images, icons, and sometimes sounds and short movies. Many now have Cascading Style Sheets, another international standard, so that visual design can be accomplished without, as a rule, affecting the textual content.
For further accessibility, images and links may be used with "alternate text" or a "title", which display when the user mouses over them, or when they are read with alternative devices (Wikinfo for example, has such titles on every image and text link).
Creating a Webpage
To create a webpage, one needs an editor (a plain text editor, or a special webpage programme, like frontpage, dream weaver and so on), and a FTP program to upload the page to the web server. One can use the web browser to upload the webpage file to the server, but is not recommended. Wikinfo, is also a special way to create or modify and upload webpages using special wikicode. Of course, this page is an example of a "wikipage".
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Webpage" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webpage, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
