3.4 type of website

Chapter Three

3.4 Type Of Website

At the end of this topic, students should be able to:

Describe the type of websites

Types of Website

• There are thirteen types of Web sites

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Portal News Informational Business/Marketing

Blog Wiki Online Social Network

Educational

Types of Website

Entertainment Advocacy Web Application

Content Aggregator

Personal

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Portal • A web site that offers variety of internet services from

single, convenient location.

• Have online communities.

Online community – a web site that joins a specific group of people with similar interests or relationships.

• Popular portals – AltaVista, AOL, Excite, GO.com, iGoogle, Lycos, MSN and Yahoo!

• A wireless portal – designed for Internet-capable mobile devices.

Example of Portal

News• Contains newsworthy material including

stories and articles relating to current events, life, money, sports and the weather.

• Provide summaries of printed articles.

Example of News

Informational• Contains factual information.

Example :-

Some organizations provide information such as public transportation schedules and published research findings.

Example of Informational

Business / Marketing• Contains content that promotes or sells

products or services.

• Many of these enterprises also allow you to purchase their products or services online.

Examples of Business / Marketing

Blog• A short for Weblog

• An informal web site consisting of time-stamped articles, or posts 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.

• Important means of worldwide communications.

• vlog (a video blog) – a blog that contains video clips.

• Microblog – allows users to publish short messages

• Blogosphere – worldwide collection of blogs.

• Vlogosphere – all vlogs worldwide.

• Blogger – blog author.

• Vlogger – vlog author

Example of Blog

Example of Vlog

Example of Microblog

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.

• The difference between a wiki and blog is that users cannot modify original posts made by the blogger.

Examples of Wiki Website

Examples of Wiki

Online Social Network• Also called a social networking Web site

• Websites that encourages members in its online community to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music and videos with other registered users

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

• Flickr, Fotki and Webshots – popular photo sharing communities.

• Eyespot and YouTube – popular video sharing communities.

Examples of Media Sharing Website

Examples of Online Social Network

Educational• Offers exciting, challenging avenues for formal

and informal teaching and learning.

Examples of Educational Website

Entertainment• Offers an interactive and engaging

environment

Examples of Entertainment

Advocacy• Contains content that describes a cause,

opinion or idea.

• Usually present views of particular group of association.

Example of Advocacy

Web Application• Allow users to access and interact with software

through a web browser on any computer or device that is connected to the Internet.

• Provide free access to their software.

• Example :- Google Docs (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations), TurboTax Online (tax preparation) and Windows Live Hotmail (e-mail)

Example of Web Application

Content Aggregator• A business that gathers and organizes web

content and then distributes, or feeds, the content to subscribers for free or a free.

• RSS 2.0 (Really Simple Syndication) – a specification that some content aggregator use to distribute content to subscribers.

Examples of Content Aggregator

Personal• People publish personal web pages for a

variety of reasons.

• Others simply want to share life experiences with the world.

Examples of Personal