When I teach a course or give a consultancy for
a customer, I've got the question frequently: what's the difference
between the "site" and "page"? It's difficult to say that. It's
difficult to say that to everybody, including also end users who aren't
IT workers.
According to my experiences, everybody likes the
spectacular metaphors. So I've found a quite simple metaphor, which
describes the differences and the connections as well between sites and
pages.
Imagine a big ball made from glass - this is the site. We
can have some things inside this ball: lists, libraries, etc. But the
surface of this ball is humid, we have to clean this if we want to see
in. These dehumidified "windows" are the pages, showing some view to
the content of the site-ball.
Certanly, we can have more pages (windows). Through these pages we can see several aspects of the ball's content...