Different Types of Websites

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A website, also written Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of
related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website
is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the
Internet or a private local area network through an Internet address known as
a Uniform Resource Locator. All publicly accessible websites collectively
constitute the World Wide Web.

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A web page is a document, typically written in plain text interspersed with
formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML). A
web page may incorporate elements from other websites with suitable markup
anchors.

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Web pages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP), which may optionally employ encryption (HTTP Secure,
HTTPS) to provide security and privacy for the user of the web page content.
The user's application, often a web browser, renders the page content
according to its HTML markup instructions onto a display terminal.

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The World Wide Web (WWW) was created in 1990
by CERN physicist Tim Berners-Lee. On 30 April
1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web
would be free to use for anyone. Before the
introduction of HTML and HTTP, other protocols
such as File Transfer Protocol and the gopher
protocol were used to retrieve individual files from a
server. These protocols offer a simple directory
structure which the user navigates and chooses files
to download. Documents were most often presented
as plain text files without formatting, or were encoded
in word processor formats.

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A static website is one that has web pages stored on
the server in the format that is sent to a client web
browser. It is primarily coded in Hypertext Markup
Language, HTML.

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Simple forms or marketing examples of websites, such
as classic website, a five-page website or a brochure
website are often static websites, because they present
pre-defined, static information to the user. This may
include information about a company and its products
and services via text, photos, animations, audio/video
and interactive menus and navigation.

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A dynamic website is one that changes or
customizes itself frequently and automatically,
based on certain criteria.

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Dynamic websites can have two types of dynamic
activity: Code and Content. Dynamic code is
invisible or behind the scenes and dynamic
content is visible or fully displayed.

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A site, typically few in pages,
whose purpose is to sell a third
party's product. The seller
receives a commission for
facilitating the sale.

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Sites generally used to post online diaries
which may include discussion forums (e.g.,
blogger, Xanga). Many bloggers use blogs like an
editorial section of a newspaper to express their
ideas on anything ranging from politics to religion
to video games to parenting, along with anything
in between. Some bloggers are professional
bloggers and they are paid to blog about a certain
subject, and they are usually found on news sites.

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Similar to an information site, but dedicated to
dispensing news, politics, and commentary.

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Most websites could fit in this type of website
to some extent many of them are not necessarily
for commercial purposes

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A website that indexes material on the internet
or an intranet (and lately on traditional media such
as books and newspapers)and provides links to
information as a response to a query.

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A site on which teachers, students, or
administrators can post information about current
events at or involving their school. U.S.
elementary-high school websites generally use
k12 in the URL

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Used to preserve valuable electronic content
threatened with extinction. Two examples are:
Internet Archive, which since 1996 has preserved
billions of old (and new) web pages; and Google
Groups, which in early 2005 was archiving over
845,000,000 messages posted to Usenet
news/discussion groups.

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The Webby Awards, Favorite Website Awards,
Interactive Media Awards and Web Awards are
prominent award organizations recognizing the
world's best websites.

These types of website are cropping up like
fleas on dog. There are web companies like,
Flickr.com, Photosite.com, and Google's
Picasa. There could easily be over a hundred
such sites that offer free photo sharing paid for
by their online advertising. Also, many digital
cameras and photo printers now come with
software enabling mere mortals to create
digital photo slide shows and upload them to
the web.

In the days before the Internet, we used the print, radio,
and television media to spread the word about our
businesses. Now we can cast a large net, reaching
literally millions of people with just one website. With
your online brochure or catalog, you can show anyone
who looks for and finds your website, photos and
descriptions of your products or services. To some this
may sound like an Ecommerce Website, but there are
many businesses that deal in products or services that
are not sellable over the web—think hair-stylist, dentist,
or day-care center.

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People took the words Web Logs and shortened it
to Blogs—online diaries, journals, or editorials, if
you will. My, how Blogs have taken over the
Internet. A person used to be outdated if he/she
did not have a website, now having a blog is de
rigeur. A blog owner will log-on daily, weekly, or
whenever, and write about whatever is going on in
their lives or business, or they may comment on
politics and news

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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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