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The opening or main page of a website, intended chiefly to greet visitors and provide information about the site or its owner.

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The first page retrieved when accessing a Web site or the first screen displayed when a PDA or smartphone is started. It provides the main menu and starting point for the rest of the content on the site or device. See INDEX.HTML and home screen.

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For Wikipedia's home page, see Main Page.

A home page or homepage has various related meanings to do with web sites:

  • It most often refers to the initial or main web page of a web site, sometimes called the front page (by analogy with newspapers).
  • The web page or local file that automatically loads when a web browser starts or when the browser's "home" button is pressed; this is also called a start page. The user can specify the URL of the page to be loaded, or alternatively choose e.g. to re-load the most recent web page browsed.
  • In the 1990s the term was also used to refer to a whole web site, particularly a personal web page (perhaps because simple web sites often consisted of just one web page).

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