A webpage can be defined as a document or a source of information, which is appropriate for the World Wide Web. WebPages can be accessed through a web browser and are displayed on the screen of a computer.
The format of the information is generally in XHTML or HTML. It might provide routing to other WebPages through hypertext links.
WebPages may be recovered from a remote web server or a local computer. The web server sometimes might restrict access private network only for, e.g. a company intranet. It might publish and post pages on World Wide Web. The web servers serve the WebPages on request and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is used in doing so.
Webpages usually consist of files that have static text and are stored within the file system of the web server. These are known as the static webpage. Sometimes the web server constructs (X) HTML separately for each webpage. This usually happens when demanded by the browser. It is then known as the dynamic webpage.
Color, illustration, typography and interaction
Webpages contain information regarding the colors and backgrounds of texts. Sometimes they also have links to images and occasionally other media is also included.
The Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), provides instructions for layout, color-scheme and typographic. This can be embedded in HTML or made available by a separate file. The latter is relevant when a single long style sheet is applicable to whole website. Because of the manner in which HTTP mechanism functions, the browser will download it only once from the server. For the remaining site it uses the cached copy
The web server contains images in the form of separate files, but HTTP allows it otherwise as well. This is because once the downloading of a webpage to a browser takes place; it is likely that some related files like style sheets and images will be demanded during the processing. An HTTP web server maintains a connection to the browser until all the related resources have been asked for and have been provided. Web browsers usually provide images together with related material and text on the demonstrated webpage.
Rendering
Webpages mostly require extra screen space than is accessible for a display resolution. The modern browsers usually position the scrollbars in the window. This allows the users to visualize all the content together. Vertical scrolling is more prevalent than horizontal scrolling.
When a webpage is created, it is imperative to ensure that it is accordance with the standards given by the World Wide Web Consortium on XML, CSS and HTML.
Web page templates:
Webpage templates are in great demand particularly with CSS as a well-known design format. Free webpage templates are being offered by different websites. These are downloaded countless number of times, but for getting some added features like customized graphics, plugins, etc.. some work will be needed. You can go for readymade templates, if you do need something more than the basic design and if you required a more elite look for your webpage with unique graphics.
1 Comment
avelox
November 14, 2009 at 05:38Sweet, interesting post and very informative!