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We hope this is helpful:  Some ambiguity is actually built into the definitions so we'll approach them in a logical manner from the ground up:

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web page Any single page that exists on the internet.
 
homepage Web pages that serve as a home for a website.  Here is the homepage of SquirrelNet.  Also called home page.
Both personal and commercial sites have homepages.
 
website An organized collection of web pages.  SquirrelNet.com is a website. 
A personal website is sometimes referred to as a homepage.  This use of homepage developed because the majority of content on a personal page often exists on the homepage.
 
hypertext Browsers recognize certain codes as hyperlinks.  That is, by clicking on certain words on a page, you can go to different locations on the internet. 
An early development of browsers is that they began to support clickable pictures, data processing forms and other elements which helped foster interactivity.
 
link Hypertext that causes a browser to ask for a new location (URL) on the internet.
 
HTML The language of hypertext.  Also known as HyperText Markup Language.
domain Refers to internet names that are recognized by InterNIC.  SquirrelNet.com is a domain.  So is Yahoo.com.  These names are associated with network addresses so that you can connect to them through the internet.
A single domain can hold more than one website.  For example, HomePage.com is a domain that contains several websites (the many personal homepages that exist on the site).  Plus, HomePage.com is a website itself.  Thus, a website can contain several small websites.
 
URL This stands for Universal Resource Locater.  But what this really means is the "http://www.squirrelnet.com/index.htm" text that appears at the top of your browser.  This tells your browser:
  • The "http" refers to how your browser will communicate with an internet server.  "HTTP" stands for HyperText Transfer protocol.
  • The "www.squirrelnet.com" refers to a static IP address.
  • "index.htm" is the file associated with the URL.
 

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