Type of Web Sites

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.
• Web system that provides the functions and features to authenticate and identify the users
• Provide them with an easy, intuitive, personalized and user-customizable web-interface for facilitating access to information. 
• 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 other communication services.
• In organization, it is a system that provides versatile functions to catalogue or organize collections of different and multiple sources of information.
• 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. Business :

• Contains content that promotes or sells products or services.
• Many of these enterprises also allow you to purchase their products or services online.
• Examples: Pearl Haya Gallery, Anakku brand, Walt Disney Company  and Kraft Brands .

3. 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.
• Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs 
• Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries.
• A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. 
• The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.”‘
• Conclusion: a blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.

4. Wiki :

• Definition : 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.
• Visitors can also create new content and change the organization of existing content.
• The simplest wiki programs allow editing of text and hyperlinks only. 
• More advanced wikis make it possible to add or change images, tables, and certain interactive components such as games.

5. Online Social Network :

• Also called a social networking Web site
• Definition : Encourages members in its online community to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music and videos with other registered users
• Examples: Facebook, MySpace
• A media sharing web site
• A specific type of online social network that enables members to share media such as photos, music and videos.