1. Topic 3
INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
3.4 Types of Web Site
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2. Learning Outcome
At the end of this topic, students should be able to:
• Describe the types of Web sites.
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3. Types of Web Site
 There are five (5) types of Web site:
Portal Business/Marketing Blog
Online Social Network Wiki
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4. Web Site: Portal
 What is a Portal?
• A portal is a Web site that offers a variety of
Internet services from a single, convenient
location.
• These free services are: search engine; news;
sports and weather; Web publishing; reference
tools such as yellow pages, stock quotes, and
maps; shopping; and e-mail and other
communications services.
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5. Web Site: Portal
• Have online community that joins a specific group of
people with similar interests or relationships.
• These communities may offer online photo albums,
chat rooms, and other services to facilitate
communications among members.
• Popular portals include:
• AltaVista, AOL, Excite, GO.com, iGoogle, Lycos,
MSN, and Yahoo!
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6. Example of Portal
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7. Example of Portal
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8. Web Site: Blog
 What is a Blog?
• A blog, short for Weblog, is an informal Web site
consisting of time-stamped articles, or posts, in a diary
or journal format, usually listed in reverse
chronological order.
• A video blog, or vlog is a blog that contains video
clips.
• A microblog allows users to publish short messages
for others to read. Twitter is a popular microblog.
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9. Web Site: Blog
• Blogs reflect the interests, opinions, and personalities
of the author, called the blogger or vlogger and
sometimes site visitors.
• Businesses, teachers and home users create blogs as a
mean of communications.
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10. Example of Blog
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11. Example of Vlog
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12. Example of Microblog
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13. Web Site: Wiki
 What is a Wiki?
• A wiki is a collaborative Web site that allows users to
create, add to, modify, or delete the Web site content
via their Web browser.
• Wikis are open to modification by the general public,
and usually collect recent edits on a Web page so that
someone (expert editors) can review them for
accuracy.
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14. Web Site: Wiki
• The difference between a wiki and a blog is that users
cannot modify original posts made by the blogger.
• A popular wiki is Wikipedia, a free Web encyclopedia.
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15. Example of Wiki
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16. Example of Wiki
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17. Web Site:
Online Social Network
 What is a Online Social Network?
• An online social network, also called a social
networking Web site.
• It is a Web site that encourages members in its online
community to share their interests, ideas, stories,
photos, music, and videos with other registered users.
• Popular social networking Web sites include MySpace
and Facebook.
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18. Web Site:
Online Social Network
• A media sharing Web site is a specific type of online
social network that enables members to share media
such as photos, music, and videos.
• Flickr, Fotki, and Webshots are popular photo sharing
communities.
• PixelFish and YouTube are popular video sharing
communities.
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19. Examples of Online Social
Network Web Site
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20. Examples of Online Social
Network Web Site
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21. Web Site:
Business / Marketing
 What is a Business / Marketing Web site?
• A business/marketing Web site contains content that
promotes or sells products or services.
• Many enterprises allow you to purchase their
products or services online such as Dell Inc., Apple
Store, Kraft Foods Inc., Pearl Haya Gallery etc.
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22. Example of Business / Marketing
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23. Example of Business / Marketing
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24. Types of Web Site
 Summary:
Portal Business/Marketing Blog
Online Social Network Wiki
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