A website can be any of the below two types:
Static Website
or
Dynamic Website
Further websites are categorized in various different types. Let’s see one by one.
Static Website
- Static websites are the basic websites.
- They are fixed.
- The content is not changed often.
- They aren’t updated by users.
- These kind of websites are made for information and not for user interaction.
Example: www.husali.com
Dynamic Website
- Dynamic websites are the ones where content is updated often.
- Users interact with such website.
- User can generate content or see what he/she wants by adding some filters.
- Here the content is updated dynamically.
- These kind of websites are used more by the users as they find some kind of interaction with the websites.
Example: www.mix.com
1. Blog Website
Blog can or can not be a website.
When can we say blog is a website?
It is a kind of journal diary people keep online, sometimes also sharing their expertise & inviting readers to discuss the problems in the comments.
Blogs can be personal or professional.
When a bloggers shares a content on the website & users read for some purpose then a blog can be called as website.
Example: www.carlytheprepster.com
When can we say blog is not a website?
In most cases, the competition is really high in the web. To keep the search engine ranks high as possible. In such cases websites not only need to correspond to the technical & design requirements but they also need to constantly update their content. This is when blogs come into play.
And when you share the content on website for search engine optimisation then it can not be called as a website.
Example: www.digitalsurgeons.com/thoughts
2. Collaborative Website
A collaborative website is a website that implements the principle of user collaboration, which includes the ability to provide input, access common files and otherwise work collaboratively on the Web.
Example: www.wikipedia.org
3. Corporate Website
A corporate website is aimed at presenting the company.
The target audience is their clients who buy services.
This website may include the portfolio, services, philosophy of the company, testimonials, careers etc.
Example: www.digitalsurgeons.com
4. Crowdfunding Website
These type of websites raise money for various types of goals from charity to startups & business investments.
Example: www.milaap.org
5. Directory Website
These websites are a huge lists or catalogs of data organised around one area or theme.
Example: www.justdial.com
6. E-commerce Website
The main purpose of E-Commerce websites is to sell products or services online.
It includes different stages like, showcasing the product, adding it to cart, online payment, home delivery of product, replacements or returns, product & service reviews.
E-commerce websites can act in two ways.
-By presenting physical shops
-By operating online only
Example 1: www.amazon.com
7. Educational Website
These websites have content to learn different things online from libraries, encyclopaedias & professional courses.
Example: www.coursera.org
8. Forum Website
Forum is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.
Example: www.stackoverflow.com
9. News Website
These are a kind of online magazines or newspaper websites.Their primary goal is to provide inform users about latest news and events.
The content may be restricted to specific region or all over around the world.
It could be about fashion, design, politics, economics, weather, sports, social sciences.
Example: www.timesofindia.com
10. Personal Presentation Website
These websites aims to promote individual content in a professional or
non-professional perspective.
It could be portfolios, blogs or articles.
Example: www.johnyvino.com
11. Q & A Website
These are the websites somewhat similar to forum websites. They aim at answering the users questions posted on the website. These answers can be given by one or many users, the most liked answers are ranked on the first place.
Example: www.quora.com
12. Review Website
Here, you can review different products, sometimes movies & companies. So that user can compare those and choose the best for themselves.
Example: www.imdb.com
13. Search Engine Website
These websites lets user find anything they have in mind. Based on the inputs multiple search results can appear on the screen.
The searched keywords are crawled by the search engine and the most ranked results are showed in the top.
Example: www.bing.com
14. Sharing Website
These websites allow the user to share different kinds of content like picture, videos, text files, music etc.
The user at the other end can download the content.
These services can be paid or free depending the strategies of the website.
Example: www.wetransfer.com
15. Social Bookmarking Website
These websites allow users to bookmark different websites links which they want to read in future or on a daily basis.
Advantage- user need not find for the same thing again and again.
Example: www.mix.com
16. Social Website
On social websites people are able to share thoughts, opinions
The type of the messages may differ
You can create a community for a particular type of people
You can create Pages and groups for different purposes.
Communication is mostly based on the user generated content.
Example: www.facebook.com
17. Torrent Website
Torrent is a peer to peer network website
There are no centralised server to maintain and store the data.
It has a small set of servers to find seed and peer.
These websites are made for free movies, music, books, games etc.
Example: www.1337xto.to
18. Video Streaming Website
These websites are all based on video content
These may be online TV services or streaming platforms.
Example: www.vimeo.com
19. Webmail Website
These websites allow the users to send emails from one source to another.
These mails can be forwarded to other registered users or can be replied to the same user.
Example: www.gmail.com
The list will continue to grow as time goes by. But I hope you get an idea what kind of websites are there on the internet. After all websites are all about the content that provides knowledge & Entertainment.