is the correct English term "ON the website" or "AT the website"? Or are both possible?

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This is an extra suggestion intended to supplement Jerrie's answer. Credit for the correct response should still go to Jerrie.

The use of "on" or "at" depends on the verb that you are using, not the fact that it has website as its object. That's why in different situtions you get different, apparently contradictory, answers.

Therefore if you are displaying information, you will normally display it "on" a notice board, "on" a poster or even "on" a website.

However, if you think of the website as a virtual (or physical) place, then you would visit us "at" our website (or "at" our home, "at" our shop, "at" our office etc.).

Equally, as was pointed out, you may simply visit our website, our office, our home, etc without the need for a preposition at all.

I hope this helps.

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This Note is to answer Nikita\'s question below ...

\"Our catalogue on / at this site ...\" is a noun phrase, i.e. it doesn\'t contain an explicit verb to dictate whether \'on\', \'at\' or some other preposition is correct.

In this particular example you could use either \'on\' or \'at\' and be perfectly understood by a native speaker of English.

There are some very slight nuances depending on the context in which the phrase is spoken or written, and the precise meaning intended.

For example, if the phrase were written on the site\'s homepage, I would expect the intended meaning to be something like \"Our catalogue, which you can access/consult/use on this site, isn\'t complete\". \'On\' feels right to me here because the reader is already on the site and therefore close to the catalogue. It\'s \'on\' the site, just in front of them.

Alternatively, if the phrase were spoken in a meeting where \'this site\' were the topic of discussion, the site is somewhere else and so the meaning would be more like \"Our catalogue, which customers can access/see/use at this site, isn\'t complete.\" \'At\' feels very slightly preferable to \'on\' here as the site is somewhere else, though in this case I believe that most native English speakers would be equally happy to use \'on\'.

Sadly there\'s no single rule that can be mechanically applied to dictate the appropriate use of each preposition, only clues (such as look at the verb and the context), and our experience of literally thousands of different examples to which we are exposed as we become fluent in a language.

It\'s further complicated by inconsistencies between different speakers of the same language. The first time an American told me that \"It\'s ten of three\" (or should that be \"ten off three\") I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about. I\'m British, so for me the only sensible preposition in this situation is \'to\'.

So, how does one cope with all this uncertainty - here\'s my tip, based on years of struggling with French prepositions and Japanese postpositions. If you\'re not sure which preposition to use, and all the rules are going round and around in head causing more confusion than clarification, sit back, close your eyes, expell all the rules from your brain, then repeat each possibility out loud several times and chose the one that sounds the most natural - you\'ll usually be right (and you can always double check on ProZ.com if it\'s important).

Good luck.

just an addition to the previous ones,not for points. if you imagine someone standing beside a blackboard,ready to write things on it. Where is he? AT the blackboard-not on it or in it. the things he writes, he writes ON it,however.