A site can be a space or a place: "The Taj Mahal is the most visited site in India."
Originating from the Latin situs , a site is a place that can be occupied or that can become so for a certain reason or with a specific purpose . To give some examples of use: “Excuse me, but you are sitting in my place,” “There is no place for bullies here,” “Finally, after so much effort, I am in the place I always wanted to be.”
A site is also a space , area or territory that allows a particular purpose to be carried out: “That site is intended for the construction of a barbecue area,” “I have to find a place to store my collection of prints,” “Yesterday I collected "to a little puppy from the street: now I need to find a place where it can stay."
The state of siege
Siege is, on the other hand, the act and consequence of besieging (that is, surrounding or cornering someone or something). The so-called state of siege, in this sense, gives its name to an exceptional regime that a government declares on extraordinary occasions. In states of siege , special powers are usually granted to security forces so that, if reality requires it, they can take repressive measures.
Although it depends on each national legislation, the state of siege generally implies a suspension of constitutional guarantees. A president can declare a state of siege in situations of social violence, armed conflicts or a foreign invasion.
An Internet site is a set of web pages gathered on the same domain or subdomain.
A set of Internet pages
A website is an accumulation of web pages that usually make up the same Internet domain or subdomain. It is a series of documents (HTML files, Flash animations, images, videos, etc.) that have some relationship with each other.
When founding a company or starting a business, regardless of the field and investment, it is vitally important to carry out an effective advertising campaign, and the most complete medium that offers results the fastest is, without a doubt, the Internet .
The importance of having a website
Quite a long time ago, skepticism on this topic was common from people outside of technology, who hid behind the fact that their potential clients did not usually surf the Internet, whether due to demographic, cultural or age reasons. However, with the widespread use of smartphones and tablets, as well as the evolution of televisions and the greater portability of the notebook family, today it is rare to meet someone who does not frequent the Internet.
However, there is a long way to go in terms of promoting small companies and independent entrepreneurs. Good taste is an absolutely relative and circumstantial concept, which can take many forms and change over time. When presenting yourself on the Internet it is also necessary, and not many people understand that the audiovisual language , as well as the functional language, used there is different from that of a magazine or a flyer.
The design
As in all cases, each element of a website must exist for a reason, which will be arrived at after a careful analysis of the public that will visit it, the type of company, the geographical area in which it is located and the media. economical available for construction .
A very common mistake is to look for an explosion of colors and animations made in Flash. Both decisions are an attack on the success of a site, since the clarity of the message should be the fundamental objective, and the number of tones should be moderate, to create an aesthetic in accordance with the type of business. On the other hand, animations are not always well received, given the memory demand necessary to display them and the infinite list of incompatibility conflicts between Adobe products and browsers.
Finally, in an era in which more browsing is done on the phone than on the computer, it is essential to build pages that adapt to smaller resolutions and screen sizes, eliminating those secondary elements and maintaining the visual impact of the main version.
Other meanings of the term site
In Cuba , a site is a small ranch dedicated to cultivation or raising domestic animals.
In Mexico , finally, official or generally recognized taxi stops are also called sites.