Web site, web site or website? A quick poll.
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Time for a quick poll. Which is your preference?
- Web site (W in caps)
- web site (w in lower)
- website (w in lower and one word)
Respond with your preference and explanation, and I will compile the results.
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12:24 pm on December 25th, 2009
I prefer “website” to the others. I use the same compound convention when talking about “microsites” as well.
7:49 pm on December 26th, 2009
My vote goes to “website”. A web site is some forgotten corner where spiders do their thing.
7:49 am on December 29th, 2009
Here’s another vote for “website.” I don’t like to capitalize web because, well, the web already has too high an opinion of itself. Why encourage it? ;-)
3:33 pm on December 29th, 2009
“website”. At the gut level it just feels right (and I’ve been creating websites since the WWW began).
9:32 am on January 18th, 2010
The Web is the World Wide Web. It’s a proper noun so you should use capital W.
So a site on the Web is a Web site.
2:49 pm on January 29th, 2010
website