I think I’ve figured out the difference between a “site” and a “website” !!!
But first, I want you to tell me what you think the difference is (if you don’t think there’s any difference, then please don’t bother posting a reply — this thread would be entire uninteresting for you…
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I think that a site is a place on the internet that is not important. I mean, its like simple, a profile or something. Its not anything anyone would specifically want to go to. Its for an individual persons use. A website is a place that people want to visit and there is a purpose for. This is a complete guess. But Im trying :) hehe
Oh yeah! Pat Benetar! “Hit Me With Your Best Shot!” :) Thank you for putting that tune in my head! Yay!
So heres my shot …maybe not best though…
I think a site is a sight to see, but of course nobody knows about it ’cause its not part of the web. Now a website is a place that has connections! If that makes any sense at all. :)) LOL.
a site is like a cool place and a website is like were all the drunk duds hang out no just jokeing i dont really think theres a difference i mean there basicly the same thing arent they
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that the interconnectivity of electronic devices we think of as the internet (plus all the privet and public intranets) is much larger then just the world wide web.
So a “site” is any page or application or area (what ever) that contains electronic information in the over all monster of connectivity; where as a ‘website’ is a subgroup of this thing called a ‘site’ that exists on the world wide web.
Practically speaking; here at work we have a homepage setup on our intranet (and many many other pages dedicated to different functions of the business), now these pages aren’t published on the world wide web, you have to be in our buildings to access them. Now these pages are ‘sites’ but they aren’t ‘websites’ because they aren’t on the web.
xbox wrote: BTW: it’s also totally OK with me if others feel they agree with what has been said before — I’m not insisting on 10 different answers, just 10 responses (whether or not they’re different from each other ;)
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In that case I also argee with bellatrix130 - just joking
There are many types of sites, such as a construction site like someone else has already mentioned, but for the purpose of this discussion I will address the internet.
In my opinion, sorry you might not like all of it because it goes against your criteria just slightly.
Basically, sites and websites are the same thing. Keep in mind I said basically, but I believe that “site” is the casual term and the term “website” is a professional term.
In other words if your emailing with a friend you’ll say “Check out this site” or if your in business you would say “Please visit my website”.
If I ever expected everyone to agree with me 100% of the time, I’d be in sad shape. I look forward to your revelations and who knows I might agree, but then again I might disagree. Either way, without the opinions of others the world might become dull and unchallenging.
SITE:
- an area of ground on which a town, building, or monument is constructed
- a place where a particular event or activity is occurring or has occurred
- short for “building site”
- short for “Web site”
- location, place, position, situation, locality, whereabouts; technical locus.
- lace, put, position, situate, locate
ORIGIN late Middle English (as a noun): from Anglo-Norman French, or from Latin situs ‘local position.’ The verb dates from the late 16th cent.
Web site (also “web site” or “website”):
- a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web.
PERSONAL ADDENDUM:
You spent several years wondering about this when you could’ve looked it up in the dictionary…? ;)
Actually, Urban Dictionary is both people and a dictionary, which makes it, I think, one of the most fascinating things on the internet.
Anyway. I don’t know the difference between a site and a website. I’m of the generation that doesn’t think about the internet, we just take it for granted. Kind of like your generation with flush toilets.
Makes sense to me; I would argue that this may not be how everyone uses the terms. To most people the words are simply synonymies. But if you are interested in creating a vernacular for industry use, which is normally more sophisticated then laymen speak, then your definition could be valuable. I can certainly see the reason why the industry would want to separate the concepts of the property and the structure with which a “internet place” is made of.
I would expect to hear this conversation in the board room if you definition is adopted.
“Help.com is a valuable site one that will bring revenue to the company; how ever Help.com is not a very effective website and it brings down our profit margin. We might think about changing Help.com to a different website”
However all those involved in the conversation will have to be using your definitions or the conversation would get really confusing.
Is help.com really a good place to find help, I can imagine it could be, But there is a lot of irrelevancies on here that make it inefficient. The moderating is also very subjective rather then objective which is very unprofessional. I believe I read a post by Xbox recently about a FAQ or something – which could go a long way to making this a more efficient “website”, which should be considered.
If you look at hotels.com it’s a very efficient with very little irrelevancies. That is a model “website”.
xbox wrote: Yes, I agree — but there are some significant differences between hotels.com and help.com and also, for example, news.com or downloads.com (and here I am actually talking about the “semantic location” — in other words the “idea space” (site) that the website is coded onto (mind you, I am now taking you down paths that normally only very few people have ever considered ;).
“Hotels” has an income stream like OPEC has oil. That is a crucial difference between “hotels” and “help” — but it’s one that the managment has actually not paid attention to (or at least not enough). Let me offer some naive suggestions: Amnesty International, Reporters Sans Frontiers, Barnardos (UK), etc. — there are many organizations that could and should be advertising on this space. It seems like somebody has dropped the ball here (and these Google Gizmo ads are actually quite disrespectful of the membership’s intelligence.
If there were a very forward thinking management, then they might even extend the selection of organizations to the membership itself — a model that the downloads.com (website) has at least partially been able to pull off (here, I am talking about how user ratings and/or download popularity are used as gauges of a software’s “value” — and you can only see this if you do a search @ download.com [I think actually singular and plural “map” to the same site ;])….
Then there is another difference: unlike “news” (which must come from a “source” [and “move” towards a more/less passive audience]), “help” is something inherently collaborative. In this regard, the management should do more in the direction of actually promoting collaboration. It is very amusing to me that people almost thing it is wrong to edit tags in order to focus the topic appropriately! This site could really use a “guide” (like me ;) who can teach people that collaboration actually means engaging as co-leaders! I am doing my best (as a “plain old member” ;), and my success is OK — but there are limits to how much I can “enable” anything as long as the website development team seems to be understaffed….
(all of this are just some random ideas in response… ;)
Very insightful - idea hire you :P
I to thought it odd that advertising isn’t used more dynamically here, with the member base and the number of new people everyday.
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