Types of Websites
What kind of website do you need?
Informational, E-Commerce, Blog?
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Informational
An informational website, as you can guess, provides information to its visitors. Informational website owners generally include information about their business as well as helpful articles that teach their visitors something about their product, service, or industry. The information provided can be very basic and static or it can be added to and changed on a regular basis.
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E-Commerce
An e-commerce site offers its visitors a way or purchasing a service or item. This normally involves providing some sort of picture or image of the item with a description. This type of site also requires some sort of shopping cart software which will additionally require the website owner to have a merchant account that can accept online payments.
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Blog or WebLog
A blog is a type of website that has really caught on fire over the past couple of years. It provides regularly updated information. Viewers/readers of blogs normally return to blogs on a regular basis in order to read the newest information “posted” there. As a great way of communicating with clients and/or potential clients, some website owners will include a blog with their website so that they may build a rapport with their customers and clients.
These are just very brief, general descriptions of types of websites and is by no means a complete list. It hopefully will help you to start thinking about what you want your website to do. If you’d like to see a complete list of types of websites, you can check out Wikipedia’s definition by clicking on this link.
