A website is a collection of web pages, videos, images that are addressed in an Internet Protocol – based network and with an IP address or common domain name . A web site is accessible via a private local area network or a network like the Internet and is hosted on several web servers. It is written in plain text and you can consider it a document. Suitable markup anchors help incorporate elements from other websites. Web pages are transported and accessed with HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol which in order to provide privacy and security may employ HTTPS –HTTP Secure. The world Wide Web is made of all the web sites. Homepage is URL –Uniform Resource Locator.
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Adolescence is the period of transition of mental and physical development that turn the child into an adult. This transition involves psychological, social and biological changes. You are considered a teenager if you have 13 years old and up to 17.

Notable changes in mood, known as mood swings are associated with adolescent psychology. Emotional, cognitive and attitudinal changes take place during this period and make a difficult period for the teenager as well for his/her parents. A substantial impact of the developing minds of teenagers is their home and the notions that were implemented from their early childhood. During the adolescence period , teens are confused, they don’t know to make the difference between right and wrong.



Here are some cool websites for teenagers and a short description of them:

-         Exchanges Canada – exchange programs and experience the diversity of languages, communities and cultures.

-         TeenOutReach.com – chat, school tutorials and personal advice

-         AIDS Information for Teenagers – ways of becoming infected, what causes AIDS, injected drug, what activities are safe

-         Amigos – place where Hispanic teens share swap experiences,  stories, ask questions and find information

-         BeeTrendy.com – information on trends, styles, games, news and more

-         Bolt – features and news, chat, email, message boards

-         ChannelOne.com – offers news for global community, classroom and entertainment

-         Cheekfreak – get help with post art, problems

-         CyberIsle – youth health information on sex, smoking, alcohol, drugs. Also including discussion groups, graffiti wall, quizzes and games

-         Dallas City Kids – complete guide with places to see, things to do

-         First Cut – via a chat room and a bulletin board teens interact with each other

-         FitTeen – dedicated to weight training, fitness, nutrition and aerobics

-         Foster Club – contests, information, discussion for foster kids

-         FreeThinkersSociety – broadens perspectives to minimize ignorance and prejudice and improves communication

-         Frontline: Inside the Teenage Brain – influence teachers and parents to understand why adolescence behave the way they do.

-         Go4GoWeb – features beauty tips, games, message board and homework help

-         High School Cyberpals – similar interests of high school students

-         High School Underground – high school life’s frustrations

-         High School Nation – comment upon teachers

-         How to be Popular in High School – thoughts about fitting and popularity

-         My future – college and carrier information

-         New Teen Drivers – tips for new and young drivers: how to recognize fatigue, driving in bad weather

-         Once Were Heroes – 20^th century British youth culture

-         Teen Think Tanks of America – brainstorming the prevention and causes of school violence

Cool websites for teenagers must be very interesting because teens get bored quickly. This kind of websites must supply many interactive features in a simple way, but not in a childish way. Teens have a wired lifestyle and researches show that they are using internet for: hobbies, school assignments, news, entertainment , e-commerce and they also learn about health issues that they are embarrassed top talk about.

Although many think that teens are techno wizards the studies contradict that. In fact adults know more how to use complex sites. The poor performance of teens is influenced by: less sophisticated research strategies, insufficient reading skills and lower patience level. Teens pay more attention to the visual aspect of the sites that adults do. Teens want to be stimulated because they have a short attention span. You can never keep teens on your site if it is boring or are difficult to figure out. One funny aspect is that teens don’t like small fonts. And what makes this funny is the fact that the ones that made the study thought that only old users don’t like small fonts because of the bad eyesight and they also thought that websites are made with small fonts because the ones that created them were young people with good eyesight.

Teens are attracted by forms for providing feed-back, online quizzes, games, online voting, message boards, sharing pictures, forums for advices. Teens express themselves in many ways. Teens are very different from children and adults.

The studies show that teens stay in front of the computer from 5 to 10 hour per week. 83% of teenagers are online. Teens prefer web sites that adults like. Such as: Wikipedia, Yahoo, Google. This is what teens like to do on their computers: play computer games, board games, vehicle racing, action figures, play sets, draw and win prizes or see television episodes that they missed. Today teens are demanding and well informed. Only new and interesting websites can interact this new generation of teens.  If you belong to the older generation , it is easy to misunderstand them.

Website can also be spelled web site and refers to videos, images and digital assents that create the web page. Web server hosts the web site and it is accessible through a local area network or the internet . A plain text with the formatting instructions of XHTML, HTML becomes the document which is named web page. Elements from other websites may be incorporated in a web page. Hypertext Transfer Protocol also called HTTP help the transport and the access of the web pages in conditions of privacy and security. The World Wide Web is constituted by the websites.
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Homepage is called the Uniform Resource Locator URL that makes accessible the page of a website. You need to subscribe in order to access some of the website’s content. Here are some examples : news sites, business, gaming or social networking websites. In 1990 was created The World Wide Web. Gopher protocol and file transfer were used before HTTP and HTML  in order to retrieve individual files from server. A simple directory structure which the user chooses files to download and navigate are offered by these protocols. Plain text files without formatting  were used as documents.

A website can be created by an individual or a organization and is dedicated to a purpose or a topic. Other websites can be contained by the main website and that makes the user confused . Web pages can be seen on PC’s, laptop computers or even cell phones. The most commonly web servers are: Apache, Netcraft and IIS.

The website that has the web pages in the format that is sent to the web browser of a client is called a static website. A five –page website, a classic website or a brochure website are simple forms of websites. Same information is displayed to all visitors by this type of website. Information about the products, the company are included, as well as animations, navigation and interactive menus. The text is edited manually and website design skills are required for photos. Via a static website, the visitors don’t have the possibility to control the information they receive.

A dynamic website is based on certain criteria that allows the website to customizes itself. Content and code are the two types of  dynamic activity. The dynamic code cannot be seen while the dynamic content is fully displayed. The dynamic code has an active programming language instead of plain and the lines are constructed dynamically. A web site with dynamic code refers to the code to create a single web page and to its construction. Certain procedures , routines and blocks of code generate the dynamic web page. A coherent page is  made of bits of information that create a database.

The dynamic content refers to the way in which the text, the messages and images are displayed  on the web page. These change based on variable users input or predefined rules. For example , a website with news articles is set to display all new articles for the current date or if you choose to search a word in particular , the page will show what you are looking for.

Automation is the main purpose of dynamic website. It is more efficiently, more effective and it is easy to expand, update and maintain. It is even more simple to create a database and a temple than thousands of static pages.

Java Server Pages, Perl programming languages, PHP, Active server pages, Cold Fusion and YUMA are software systems that can generate dynamic sites and dynamic web systems. Many sites have content that is taken from databases or using RSS technology. Periodically or when needed , static content can also be dynamically generated in order to avoid performance loss.

Cool websites have original and unique web services. Here are some of the cool websites that I recommend you to visit:

-         BugMeNot- you can have access to the sites that usually ask you to log in.

-         DailyLit – you can read books on your mobile, e-mail

-         Google SMS – provides useful information (restaurants, weather, movies, currency converter)

-         Podlinea- you can listen to podcasts

-         RetailMeNot- discounts coupons for web shopping

-         TeleFlip – send e-mail on your phone as text message

-         GameJump- free games

-         Google SendToPhone- send anything you find interesting on the web directly to your phone

-         This is the one that I liked best – BossBitching- is a community where people can gossip about their bosses while remaining anonymously

-         Yapta- you can get your money back on the already bought plane ticket, if the price will drop

-         The Union- it is not a new website but is still going strong. You can find satirical news. It is on top of the list of cool sites  because is the funniest destination.

-         With Ning you can create your own social network.

-         Pandora plays songs that are resemble musically.

-         Woot is the perfect place to shop if you don’t have much time

-         Stumple Upon is a website that make you feel you have a remote control to change website after website.

-         Lifehacker teaches you tricks in order to do things quicker

-         Wheatherbonk – I’m sure we all want to know what the weather would be like tomorrow so this is the perfect place to find out.

The internet had become a big business that cures boredom and kills time. Cool websites are fun.

A website is a gathering of associated web pages, videos, images or other digital values that can be searched with a trivial IP address or domain name in an Internet Protocol-based network. One web site can exist on a web server at least, that can be accessed through a network like Internet or a particular local area network.
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A document, usually typed in plain text bulked with formatting directions of Hypertext Markup Language is called a web page. That may possess pieces from other web sites if they have markup anchors that are suitable. In order to access and transport web pages, one must use Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), that could facultative employ encryption, like HTTPS or HTTP Secure to offer privacy and security for the web page content’s user. The application of the user, usually a web browser, offers the page content through its HTML markup instructions towards a display terminal.

The World Wide Web is made of all the web sites that are publicly accessible.

The homepage is a Uniform Resource Locator, shortly URL, that is casually used to access the pages of a web site. The pages’ URL establish a hierarchy among them, albeit hyperlinking among them transmits the observed site structure of the reader and directs the navigation of the reader concerning the site.

Some of the web sites ask for a subscription to process a part or all of the content present there. For example, a lot of business sites are subscription sites, as well as gaming sites, academic journal sites, a part of many news sites, social networking web sites, web-based e-mail, sites that provide real-time stock market data, services and message boards.

There are many opinions concerning the 50 coolest sites in the world. According to Time, in partnership with CNN, for example, the 50 best web sites are the ones presented below. They are web sites that will require the erasing of your bookmarks, as they say joking around.

Starting with the bottom, with the one at the end of the list, Know Your Meme is the favorite dish of the fledgling. Weekly or seldom, “researchers” from the  Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies give details about what is amusing on the Internet and why.

Get High Now is the next in the reversed list. Do not let the name fool you, because such a thing has not been invented, at least, not yet. The web site is actually a science site wearing a mask of mind- expansion. There are 40 visual and audio illusions or hallucinations that wait for you to experience them and understand them after they are explained through brain science. For example, even if they do not change the key, the Shepard tones arrive at a lower and lower or higher and higher tone. The Risset rhythms appear to have a faster and faster pace, but if you tape them with your foot, you notice they have never changed to start from. Theta-wave synchronizations and binaural beats give you a different state, and it is true, because you can see the induced changes through fMRI. A secret to science, the highly intoxicating chronosynclastic infundibulum is also presented on the web site.

Fonolo is a web site that will make you forget about the tiresome “Press one for English”. If you have had it with the impersonal, annoying corporations, Fonolo presses some buttons for you and remains on hold until someone in flesh and bones comes to speak to you. You phone then rings and you can talk to that person. You can even record the chatting as an MP3.

Going to the middle of the arrangement, skipping WorldWideTelescope, OMGPOP, Photosynth, Issuu, drop.io, Aardvark, TripIt, Mint, BabyNameWizard.com’s NameVoyager, CouchSurfing, Visuwords, Yelp, Supercook, Spotify, Musicovery, Pandora and Last.fm, Facebook, Pollster, Metacritic, ConsumerSearch, Kiva and Internet Archive, we find Wikipedia, the good old encyclopedia where anybody can edit and update the information.

Like in the Olympics, we skip over to the third place, leaving Redfin, PropertyShark.com, Etsy, Netflix, Kayak, Amazon, Shop Goodwill, Craiglook, Fora TV, Vimeo, Hulu, Wolfram | Alpha, YouTube, Google, OpenTable, Academic Earth, Boing Boing, Skype, Twitter, popurls and Metafilter aside.

Delicious (once del.icio.us), began as a sort of the Flickr of bookmarks, both being owned by Yahoo!. Now it is more helpful as a search-engine hack. By filtering the tags of the web site, you narrow it down to the kind of content you are looking for.

The second site, California Coastline by its name, is a must for those who try to conquer the sky, although it is definitely NSFW. One of the most riveting sites on the Internet is created using only a digital camera, a helicopter and a man. The web site is rudimentary, it does not want to show off with its interface, but with what is says to be – 10,000 up-close-and-personal shots from the air of the entire 1,000-mile-long coast.

You would have expected it or not, but Times’ number one choice in the list of 50 coolest web sites is Flickr. It was the first site that solved the computers’ problems with visual imagery, using the so- called  collaborative tagging. The main point is that everybody can tag everybody’s uploaded photos, then they will enter in a category created by the crowd. The archive of Flickr has almost 3 billion photos. As a cool fact, the Library of Congress has begun to poll the Flickr hive mind when it arranges its personal photos.