What is a web page?

A web page is a document of information provided by a website that can be displayed to the users in a web browser. A webpage can contain any kind of information such as text, colors, images, links, graphics, animations, audio, video, and other multimedia files. Every web page contains a unique URL.

The web pages are commonly written in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Some web pages contain Javascript for dynamic behavior.

How many types are web pages are there?

From the development perspective, there are two types of web pages present on the website.

1. Static web page
2. Dynamic web page

What are the basic web pages required for a website?

There are many types are web pages depends on the kind of information that we display or the kind of information we collect from the users. Some of the web pages required for  a website are

1. Home: The home page is our website’s landing page / front page. When user search with our domain name home page is the first page to display. People often say that don’t judge a book by its cover, but in this case, the home page is like a teaser for your website visitors. It should contain important notes and services that you offer to your visitors.
2. Products/Services: This page explains about our products or services in detail. For an eCommerce website, this page would work as a shopping page to select the products that we want to buy. If there are multiple products or services we can have categories as well.
3. About Us: The name itself says what we are, How do we help our users, and what is our team structure/experiences. It mainly contains information about the teams/management and the growth of the company. We can include our mission and vision on this page.
4. Contact Us: Contact Us page contains the address/location of our business. Sometimes it just provides the information to reach out to the support team. We can also provide a form to get user requests and custom requirements.
5. Blog: This page contains the information that site owners whats to share with their visitors. It improves the communication between the website and the users. It also allows users to comment on the information that’s been shared by the site owners.
6. Landing Page: Landing pages help users to land on a particular page through search engines. These are sometimes standalone pages. We can collect information through these pages.

There could be many other pages like Resources, Solutions, Case studies, White papers, Webinars, Careers, Customers, Partners, Events, Privacy and policy, Terms and conditions, etc.