Types of Web Sites

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Types of Web Sites
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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!

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News

• Contains newsworthy material
• Contain stories and articles related to some of
  the following
• Life, money, current events, weather
• Examples
• WSB-tv
• NBC.com

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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

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Business/Marketing

• Promotes or sells a product
• Many examples

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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

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Entertainment

• Interactive and engaging
• Offer music, video, games, sports, chats,
  sweepstakes

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Advocacy

• Describes a cause, opinion, or idea
• Presents views of a group of people or
  organizations

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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

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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

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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

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Content Aggregator

• Business that gathers and organizes web content
  and then distributes or feeds the content to
  subscribers for free or for a fee

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Personal

• Private individual or family created
• People publish personal web pages for a variety
  of reasons
• Job hunting
• Share personal experiences
• Family histories