There are many different types of websites around. Companies use the internet to sell things, (this is known as e-commerce), there are educational sites, and sites which are for entertainment only. There are also many, many individual websites that people have created for their own personal use: these might be simply a record of their hobbies, their travels, photos, or basically anything that they fancied!

But if you wanted your own webpage you would need to know quite a lot about the internet. WWW, HTML, network… what's that all about? Have a look in Web Words to find out.