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That's why site map will point to individual pages usually. Website however could represent a collection of webpages, and is also interchangeable with site. Site can also be considered short for web site, which in itself, is rarely used (once for every 1000 times website is used) nowadays. Hence website is more common and probably more appropriate.
19. As for writing ‘Web site’ as one word, it is true that this is seen a great deal, but then, so is the spelling ‘recieve’ which is just plain wrong! They do not actually provide an argument against website as one word. The fact that orthographical errors exist at all is not exactly compelling evidence.
I don't see a previous question that combines the words “in”, “on”, and “website”, but the two suggestions above plus Search this website or search in this website, On website or at website, and This question has been asked at stack overflow vs on stack overflow cover the bases. Current question duplicates effect of previous questions.
Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 and developing in 1990 both the first web server, and the first web browser, called WorldWideWeb. So the word "web" was already floating around along with "web server" since Tim created them. Some of the first hosts to offer web site hosting back then where Tripod and Pipeline.
The "web" in the example sentence is clearly referring to the World Wide Web, which is a specific technology linking hypertext documents created by Tim Berners-Lee. It is a distinct (and very popular) part of the Internet (email, FTP, and other technologies also exist alongside it on the Internet).
For example, if you instruct a user to "open your email", you need to specify "in a web browser" if you want someone to use a web-app vs. a desktop or mobile application. Separately, if you are describing steps to take within a specific non-browser application, and then you instruct someone to "open stackexchange.com", it will be confusing to a ...
Good answer, Sven – but it ignores the adjectival usage. Both web pages and webpages are likely to be used only as nouns, but webpage is readily used in adjectival form: webpage layout, a webpage feel. While web page could also be used as a modifier, I'd be much more likely to use the single-word form in such a situation, or I'd hyphenate it ...
5. 'On the internet' would refer to data/items/websites that one can find there. as Pierre said, the 'Internet' can also be seen as a web of hardware elements like routers and switches. that switch is 'in the internet'. "In the internet" to describe a switch is kind of awkward.
@mipadi: You're 100% right, and being a web developer I actually know this - I guess it slipped my mind. I guess I was thinking about it when you do include the path, at which point it wouldn't work - especially as I generally include the trailing slash on all URLs. You are definitely right though, my examples were very poor there. :) –
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