TYPES OF WEBSITE

Type of website :

• Portal
• Business
• Blog
• Wiki
• Online Social Network

1) Portal 

*A web site that offers variety of internet services from single, convenient location.*Most portals offers these free services:-Search engine-News-Sports and weather-Web publishing-Reference tools such as yellow pages, maps, shopping, and e-mail and othercommunication services.

•Have online communities.

*Online community – a web site that joins a specific group of people with similar interests or relationships.*Examples– KMPh portal e-learning, AltaVista, AOL, Excite, GO.com, iGoogle, Lycos, MSN and Yahoo!* A wireless portal – designed for Internet-enabled mobile devices.*A Web site (WAP based) that supports a user with a Smartphone or alphanumeric pager.

2) 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.

Types of blog:

*vlog (a blog that contains video clips)

* Microblog  (allows users to publish short messages usually 100 and 200 characters.)

* Blogger (blog author.)

*Vlogger (vlog author)

*Blogosphere (the world wide collection of blogs)

*Vlogosphere (all vlogs worldwide)

3)Wiki

•A collaborative web site that allows users to create, add to, modify, or delete the web site content via their web browser.

4) Online Social Network

*Encourages members in its online community to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music and videos with other registered users

5)Business

*Contains content that promotes or sells products or services.