Homepage
It is often used with the same meaning as a website. In other words, it is used as a term that indicates a place where data or files are gathered in one place on the WWW (World Wide Web), and it has abbreviations such as HP and homepi. However, this is incorrect usage. Originally, a homepage referred to the start screen (website) displayed first when a web browser is launched. In Korea, website and homepage are often used interchangeably with the same meaning, but the two are actually different.
- Website
- A collection of web pages for content or services stored on a web server to be provided on the Internet.
- It means a collection of web pages belonging to one domain.
- Homepage
- The page shown first on every website, or the first page.
- The page connected first when visiting the website above is the homepage.
Most web browsers have a “Home” button, and clicking that button performs the action of returning to the start screen. In other words, homepage originally meant “the page displayed as the home screen (start screen).”
In the early days of the Internet, many websites used a Home button as the button for returning to the start page, so the meaning changed to “website start page = homepage.” In addition, beginner books for studying HTML often used homepage creation examples with titles such as “Welcome to OO’s homepage!” This spread widely. Web pages produced everywhere like mushrooms after rain all used the word “homepage,” and magazines and media also continued to use the word incorrectly. As a result, among the general public, “homepage” became a more familiar term than “website.”