Computer and Web Articles

Alright, listen up everyone. And yes, I’m talking to you.

I continue to be surprised by the number of people I interact with who do not understand that a website and a webpage are different things. And yes, it’s true, they’re different. Keep yourself from sounding silly in the future; pay attention here.

A website is a collection of webpages. If you visit, say, www.timeforcake.com and click around on the links, you’ll be viewing various webpages within my website.

If you want to get tricky, you can consider the fact that if your website happens to be comprised of only one page, your website and your webpage are the same thing - but that’s really the only exception to the very basic definitions of these two terms.

So, just for clarity’s sake, the sentence “Erin, how long will it take you to update our company’s entire webpage” is incorrect - because the person speaking is actually referencing her company’s website, not webpage. So the correct wording would be either “Erin, how long will it take you to update our company’s entire website?” or “Erin, how long will it take you to update all the webpages in our website?”