A place on the Internet or World Wide Web. The term Web site refers to the all encompassing body of information as a whole, for a particular domain name. A place made up of Web pages.
Site can also refer to an FTP site or archive site which is a directory on a computer somewhere which has been set up to allow users to log in and retrieve or upload files to it.
or emoticons - When speaking face to face, the person's facial expressions help you understand the meaning of what he or she is saying. Smileys or emoticons are an attempt to bring that extra nuance to online communications, by composing a face out of ASCII characters. This is also reffered to as ASCII art. See our more page on smileys and ASCII art for an extensive list of these characters (be sure to tilt your head to the left).
