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In the case of "website", it's not so clear what's correct, as a website is a rather abstract phenomenon. If you think of it as a site on the web, "at" would be correct, but if you think of it as a page on the web, "on" would be correct. Share. Improve this answer. Follow.
29. Future Perfect's "Is it Web site or website?" states: Since the World Wide Web is a proper noun, we use initial upper-case letters, as we would with your surname, for example. 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!
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.
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.
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).
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.
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 ...
25. "Home page" was used first, but "homepage" followed soon after, is also acceptable and I prefer. Homepage was used to refer to the main page of a website as early as July 1993. Home page was used to refer to the main page of a website as early as September 1992. The first web browser was only written (by Tim Berners-Lee) in 1990-1991.
1. You could say it is a shift from one page to the other. In this case, shift means "a change or transfer from one place, position, direction, person, etc., to another." Or you could say this is toggling between pages or sites. In this case, toggle means "to switch to a different option, view, application, etc."