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Types of Website 🖧

The Web

➤ Web page is an electronic document on the Web, which can contain text, graphics, animation, audio and video

➤ Web site is a collection of related Web pages and associated items
such as documents and pictures, stored on a Web server.

➤ Web is a worldwide collection of electronic documents.

Types of Web sites

• Portal

• Blog

• Wiki

• Online Social Network

• Business

Portal

➸ A Web site that offers a variety of Internet services from a single,
as documents and pictures, stored on a Web server.

➸ It is like a one stop center where we can get everything from one
place.

➸Services offered by portals:

– Search engine and/or subject directory;

– News;

– Sports and weather;
– Email and other communication services

– Web publishing;
– Reference tools (such as yellow pages, stock quotes, and
maps)

– Shopping

➸Many portals have online communities.

➸Online community.
-A Web site that joins a specific group of people with similar interests or relationships.
-Offer online photo albums, chat rooms, and other services to
facilitate communications among members.

➸Examples of public portals:
– Google
– Yahoo!
– Excite,
– GO.com,
– Lycos
– MSN

Blog

➸An informal Web site that consists time-stamped articles in a diary or

journal format, usually listed in reverse chronological order.

➸Reflects the interest, opinions and personalities of the author

and sometimes site visitors.

➸Related terms:
– vlog (a video blog) – a blog that contains video clips.
– Microblog – allows users to publish short messages (ex:Twitter)
– Blogosphere – worldwide collection of blogs.
– Vlogosphere – all vlogs worldwide.
– Blogger – blog author.
– Vlogger – vlog author

➸Purpose of blogs:
– Businesses create blogs
• to communicate with employees, customers, and vendors.
– Teachers create blogs
• to collaborate with other teachers and students.
– Home users create blogs
• to share aspects of their personal life with family,friends,and others.

Wiki

➸A collaborative Web site that allows users to create, add to, modify, or
delete the Web site content via their Web browser.
➸Open to modification by the general public.
➸Wikis usually collect recent edits on a Web page so someone can review
them for accuracy.

➸Difference between wiki and blog.
– Wiki contents can be modified by anyone.
– Blog contents can only be modified by the blogger.

➸Examples of wiki:
– Wikipedia
– WikiHow

Online Social Network

➸A Web site that encourages members in its online community to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music, and videos with other registered users.

➸Popular social networking Web sites include MySpace and Facebook, with Facebook alone boasting more than 300 million active users.

➸In some social networking Web sites, such as Second Life, users assume an imaginary identity and interact with other users in a role-playing type of environment.

➸A media sharing Web site is a specific type of online social network that enables members to share media such as photos, music, and videos.

➸Flickr, Fotki, and Webshots are popular photo sharing communities; PixelFish and YouTube are popular video sharing communities.

Business