1) There are thirteen main types of websites: portal, news, informational, business/marketing, blog, wiki, online social network, educational, entertainment, advocacy, web application, content aggregator, and personal. 2) Portals provide a variety of internet services in one location and have online communities, while news sites contain newsworthy stories and articles. Informational sites share factual information. 3) Business/marketing sites promote products and services, blogs are online diaries, and wikis allow collaborative editing of content. Online social networks encourage sharing interests, and educational sites offer teaching and learning opportunities.

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3.4 Type Of Website
At the end of this topic, students should be able
to:
Describe the type of websites

2. 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

3. Types of Website
Entertainment Advocacy Web
Application
Content
Aggregator
Personal
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4. 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.

5. Example of Portal

6. News
• Contains newsworthy material including
stories and articles relating to current events,
life, money, sports and the weather.
• Provide summaries of printed articles.

7. Example of News

8. Informational
• Contains factual information.
Example :-
Some organizations provide information such
as public transportation schedules and
published research findings.

9. Example of Informational

10. 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.

11. Examples of Business / Marketing

12. Examples of Business / Marketing

13. 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

14. Example of Blog

15. Example of Vlog

16. Example of Microblog

17. 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.

18. Examples of Wiki Website

19. Examples of Wiki Website

20. Examples of Wiki

21. 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.

22. • Flickr, Fotki and Webshots – popular photo
sharing communities.
• Eyespot and YouTube – popular video sharing
communities.
Examples of Media Sharing Website

23. Examples of Online Social Network

24. Educational
• Offers exciting, challenging avenues for formal
and informal teaching and learning.

25. Examples of Educational Website

26. Entertainment
• Offers an interactive and engaging
environment

27. Examples of Entertainment

28. Advocacy
• Contains content that describes a cause,
opinion or idea.
• Usually present views of particular group of
association.

29. Example of Advocacy

30. 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)

31. Example of Web Application

32. 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.

33. Examples of Content Aggregator

34. Personal
• People publish personal web pages for a
variety of reasons.
• Others simply want to share life experiences
with the world.

35. Examples of Personal