Website Categories
The websites are then commonly divided into categories to frame the area of operation or services offered:
- Personal website – run by individuals or small groups of people (like family), which contains information mainly autobiographical or focus on their personal interests (eg. A blog)
- Corporate site – functional promotion of a business or service
- E-Commerce site (or “e-commerce”) – specializes in the sale of goods and / or services via internet
- Community site – a site where users can communicate with each other, for example through chat or forums, forming a virtual community
- Download site – large collections of links to download software (video game demos, pictures, etc.).
- Forum – a place to discuss by posting and reading messages, organized for discussions (threads) and messages (post)
- Informative site – with content aimed at informing the user, but not strictly for commercial purposes
- Search Engine – keeps track of the contents of other sites and makes them available for research
- Database site – a site whose main use is to search and display the contents of a specific database (e.g., the Internet Movie Database for movies)
- Fun site – a site that is in itself a game or serve as arena to allow multiple people to play
- News aggregator - taking them automatically from the network offers content from many sources simultaneously, and is similar in this to search engines that exploit the results of user searches aggregating and storing them in a database using criteria such as type of media (photos, video, text, etc.) and textual content. The result is a site that is growing exponentially and is enriched at infinity of pages with content relating to the subject of the basic set during installation but aging on user preferences, all automatically.
- Link farms – sites created solely to offer links to other sites (often in exchange for royalties in cash)
Many sites are a cross between two or more of the above categories. For example, a corporate site can simultaneously advertise their products and publish materials. This type is also called a ‘portal website’ which constitute a starting point, a gateway to a large group of resources for web users, the topic of the portal may be more or less general or specialized (called a vertical portal).
Some websites have restricted areas or sections accessible only upon payment of a fee, registration, or assignment of a password. These type of websites are also called membership websites.
There are a wide range of software systems, as the programming language PHP, Active Server Pages (ASP) and Java Server Pages (JSP) that are available to generate systems of dynamic websites. Dynamic sites often include content that is retrieved from one or more databases or by using XML-based technologies such as RSS.
Static content can also be dynamically generated periodically or if certain conditions occur for regeneration to prevent loss of starting the engine performance dynamic for each user or for each connection.
There are plugins available for browsers, which are used to display active content such as Flash, Shockwave or applets written in Java. Dynamic HTML also provides for user interactivity and the element of real-time updating between web pages (ie, the pages do not have to be loaded or reloaded to effect any changes), mainly using the DOM and JavaScript, support which is integrated into most modern web browsers. This topic is very wide and every day there are new models of highly professional pages.
Lately, as the social commitment of many governments, it is recommended that Web sites meet accessibility standards for them, can be visited and used by as many people as possible regardless of their physical limitations or those arising from their environment. Web accessibility guidelines are contained in the Web Content Accessibility 1.0 W3C WCAG.
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