Types of Web Sites A web site is a set of related web pages containing content such as text and multimedia which was stored on a web server.
According to a textbook named Discovering Computers 2012: Chapter Two, type of web site were categorized to thirteen types which were described as below: 1) Web Portal A web portal is a web site which aggregates many functions as a point of access to information in the internet and presents information from diverse sources in a uniform manner.Web portal offers many internet services such as e-mail, news updates, latest information of the stock prices in the market, information about technologies, database of document files, entertainment such as video and audio, and most of web portal has a search engine feature as well. It was a very unique web site as it provides a very consistent feel and organized view when we access control and procedures for many of its application and the search of its database.Many companies provide portal web sites these days with the function of combining the company resources information in a single centralized location in an internal network with a format for ease of use and access by their employees. Some web portal that we can easily notice and were commonly used around the world is iGoogle, MSN, Yahoo! , AOL and Netvibes. 2) News This type of web site may sometimes refer to an online newspaper or web newspaper.
It was an online version of a printed bulletin that can be viewed online which containing newsworthy material.This website are mostly the same as the hard-copy newspaper that we seen everyday people reading it and has the same legal boundaries like privacy and copyright of its company. Yet, business owner or organizations are given an opportunity to apply for online publications and promotions in it. Online news web site drives newspaper companies to a new era of business where they keep on competing each other in presenting latest breaking news in a timelier manner.
For example like CNN News and BBC News, it has a online news web site and a 24 hours news update on a television channel.In Malaysia, radio stations like Hits. FM were also having a website that provides news about music, events and celebrities. 3) Informational Informational web sites mainly have a function for product promotion and service promotion purposes. Its prime objective is to transmit message and information from individuals, groups and organization to their particular audience respectively via the World Wide Web.
In other words, it was quite similar as online advertising. This web sites containing factual information such as published research findings.It consists of a range from 1 ~ 2 pages to a set of multiple pages attached which includes some product, services and communication information. They usually consist of a “Home” page, an “About Us” or History page, a “More Info” page and a “Contact Us” page. Government agencies, small business company, corporate business organization, non-profits association, local events and attractions and individual such as real estate agents normally use this type of web site as their company website either for commercial, noncommercial, information provider or advertising purposes.
For example, Rate My Professors. om. 4) Business / Marketing This type of web site has a prime objective of conducting business where companies, groups and individual promote, advertise and sell their product and services for a profit via internet. It somehow may be called Internet Marketing which is conducted through e-mail and wireless media. Internet marketing can be used to increase the sales of a business, make the business more widely known to its potential customers.
Every people is considered a customer to them and they are allow to purchase product or services online in this kind of web site.Nearly every enterprise or a company has their own business / marketing web site these days, for example like IKEA-a company of furniture product and services, F Block-a company of fashion product, and Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC). 5) Blog The word Blog came from a combination of words “web” and “log” which was an online form of personal journal, article or diary where user post information about themselves, sharing thoughts and what’s new. Blogs might be written in either formal or informal manner yet it was considered an informal web site.
The author that generates the content was called a blogger.This web site functions for communicating with people, employees, customer and vendors. It might somehow collaborate with other teacher and students to share information and details of study. Some blogger use this as a place for relax their mind and express their feelings by sharing personal life with friends and family. For example like Blogger, user can create an account for free and start blogging there.
6) Wiki A wiki is a collaborative web site allows users to create, add, modify or delete its web site content using a web browser by a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.This web site was powered by wiki software and is frequently generated collaboratively by multiple users and was opened to modification by public. The web site collects recent modification for latest update accuracy for users to view the up to date information. This web site seems to be similar to blog type, but it was different in the way where users have no access to edit the original blog post by the blogger.
As a simple example that we can obviously see is the famous Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia. 7) EducationalThis web site offers a lecture and a learning opportunity of exciting, interesting, and challenging avenues for formal and informal learning. Users are available to teach and learn something from this type of web site in the way of upload and download or streaming online of information to be shared. Every mother would like to have their best meal to serve to their family, with this web site such as All Recipe. com, they can now learning new dishes online and makes their wishes come true. 8) Entertainment
