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Overview of Different Types of Websites and Their Functions

Websites serve various purposes and can be classified into distinct types. Portals offer a range of Internet services like news, sports, and shopping. News sites provide current events and informative articles. Informational websites deliver factual data from government and academic sources. Business/marketing sites promote products, while educational sites offer courses and training. Entertainment websites focus on engaging content such as music and games. Advocacy and blogs share opinions and personal stories. Lastly, wikis allow collaborative content creation, and social networks facilitate member interaction and sharing.

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Overview of Different Types of Websites and Their Functions

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  1. Types of Web Sites 1/8/08

  2. Portal • Offers a variety of Internet services • Examples of services: • News • Sports • Search engine/directory • Web publishing • Reference tools • Maps • Shopping • Email • Examples of portals: • AltaVista, AOL, Lycos, MSN, Netscape, Yahoo!

  3. News • Contains newsworthy material • Contain stories and articles related to some of the following: • Life, money, current events, weather • Examples: • WSB-tv • NBC.com

  4. Informational • Contains factual information • Government agencies provide this type of info: • Census data, tax codes, congressional budget • Others that provide this type are: • MARTA • Medicare

  5. Business/Marketing • Promotes or sells a product • Many examples

  6. Educational • Offers exciting, challenging avenues for formal and informal teaching and learning • Online training for a new skill • Online courses • Online college classes • Examples • UGA • Phoenix University

  7. Entertainment • Interactive and engaging • Offer music, video, games, sports, chats, sweepstakes

  8. Advocacy • Describes a cause, opinion, or idea • Presents views of a group of people or organizations

  9. Blog • Short for webblog • Time-stamped articles or posts, in a diary type format • Vblog – a blog that contains video • Blogosphere – worldwide collection of blogs • Vlogosphere – all vblogs worldwide • Reflect interest, opinions and personalities of the author

  10. Wiki • Allows user to create, add, modify, or delete web site content • Collect recent edits on a web page so someone can review them for accuracy • Anyone can modify a wiki • Most popular - Wikipedia

  11. Online Social Networks • Encourages members in the group to share interest, ideas, stories, photos, music, and videos with other users • Popular examples: • Facebook • MySpace (12 million visitors a day) • Media Sharing Web site – different • Allows members to share photos, music, and videos • ShutterFly, Flickr – popular sites • GoogleVideo and YouTube are example for video sharing sites

  12. Content Aggregator • Business that gathers and organizes web content and then distributes or feeds the content to subscribers for free or for a fee

  13. Personal • Private individual or family created • People publish personal web pages for a variety of reasons: • Job hunting • Share personal experiences • Family histories

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