Static Websites

A static website is built from hand-written HTML files, so the path in a page's URL is the path to that file on the server.

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The pages you built in the HTML and CSS chapter were static websites. A static web application is one where each page is created by hand. To add a new page to your site, you need to add a new .html file. Each file is a new resource. This means that the physical path to the file is also the path you see in the browser.

Website folder and file structure

The resource address: https://mysite.com/products/tablet.html.

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