Global Lehigh Strategic Initiatives (without descriptions)
PST SC015 Chapter 3 Internet Technology (V) 2017/2018
1. Chapter Three
3.4 Type Of Website
At the end of this topic, students
should be able to:
● Describe the type of websites
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2. Types of Website
• There are five types of Web sites
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Portal
Business/Marketing
Blog
Wiki
Online Social
Network
3. Portal
• A web site that offers variety of internet services from
single, convenient location.
• Have online communities.
• Online community – a website 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.
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5. 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.
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9. 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
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13. 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.
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17. 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
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18. • Flickr, Fotki and Webshots – popular photo
sharing communities.
• Eyespot and YouTube – popular video sharing
communities.
Examples of Media Sharing Website
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