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Types of Web Sites

Types of Web Sites. 1/8/08. 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!. News.

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Types of Web Sites

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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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