Types of Website

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

➸A Web site that contains content that promotes or sells products or services.

➸Nearly every business has a business Web site

➸Many of these companies also allow you to purchase their products or      services online.

➸ Examples:
   • Malaysia Airlines Online Booking Website
   • Trivago