The homepage or start page is the initial or primary web page of the website or browser. The website start page is sometimes called main page , too.
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The home page is usually the main page visitors visit to the website from a web search engine, and it can also serve as a landing page to attract visitors. The home page is used to facilitate navigation to other pages of the site by providing links to prioritized and latest articles and pages, and possibly the search box. For example, news websites can feature headlines and first paragraphs of headlines, with links to full articles, on dynamic web pages that reflect the popularity and continuation of the story. Meanwhile, other websites use the homepage to attract users to create an account. Once they are logged in, the homepage can be redirected to their profile page. This in turn can be called a "personal home page".
The website may have many home pages, though most have it. Wikipedia, for example, has a home page on wikipedia.org, as well as a language-specific page, like en.wikipedia.org and de.wikipedia.org.
Website structure
Most websites have a home page with an underlying content page, though some websites contain only one page.
The uniform resource searcher (URL) of the home page most commonly is a basic level domain name, such as https://wikipedia.org. Historically this can also be found at http://domain.tld/index.html or http://domain.tld/default.html, where "tld" refers to the top level domain used by the website.
If the home page has not been created for the website, many web servers will default to display a list of files located in the site directory, if the directory permissions security settings. This list will include hyperlinks to files, allowing for simple file sharing without retaining separate HTML files.
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Browser homepage
The home page also refers to the first page that appears when opening a web browser, sometimes called home page , even though the home page of the website can be used as the home page. This start page can be a website, or it could be a page with various browser functions like thumbnail views from frequently visited websites. Some websites can be set as home page, to be opened in different tabs. Some websites are meant to be used as starting pages, such as iGoogle (now off), My Yahoo !, and MSN.com, and provide links to commonly used services such as webmail and online weather forecasts.
Home history
In the early days of the World Wide Web in the first half of the 1990s, an important part of students 'or teachers' web pages with UNIX accounts at their universities. The system administrator of the system installs an HTTP server pointing to its root directory to the directory containing the user account. On UNIX, the base directory of an account is called "home", and the environment variable HOME contains the path (eg /home/my_username ). The home page URL usually has the format https://example.edu/~my_username/. Thus the term home page appears and then spreads to its current usage.
The personal home page has historically served as a means of self-portrayal, work-related presentations, and pure pleasure, providing the path for professional advancement and social interaction. Due to the emergence of social media sites, private home pages were no longer as common as during the mid-1990s and early 2000s.
Other uses
Private web pages are also commonly called home pages, although the website can load many pages. In Germany, the term "home" is often used as a synonym for the term "website".
The home page can also be used outside the context of a web browser, such as referring to the user interface's main screen, which is often referred to as the home screen on mobile devices like mobile phones.
See also
- Contact page
- Link page
- Sitemap
- Web design
References
External links
- Internet Company For Defined Names and Numbers (ICANN)
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Internet Society (ISOC)
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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