How a Web document works A public Web document is part of the World Wide Web and operates according the client-server model. A Web page is a file that resides on a server.
Web sites can contain massive numbers of pages of hypertext and multimedia .
A Web site truly represents a new kind of communication with unique characteristics and qualities . You create a file and put special character sequences called HTML elements into your file. These elements identify the structural parts of your document. When a Web browser displays the file, it will display your file's content, but not the characters that make up the structure. A Web document consists of HTML elements and entities .