TYPE OF WEBSITES

PORTAL

⇒ A website that offers variety of Internet service from single convenient location.

→ Web systme that provides the functions and features to authenticate the identify the users.
→ Provide them with an easy, intuitive, personalized and user-customizable  web inteface for facilitating access to information.
→ Most portals offers these free services.

•  search engine
• news
• sports and weather
• web publishing
• reference tools such as yellow pages, maps, shopping and e-mail and other communications services.

BLOG

⇒ An informal web site consisting of time-stamped articles, or posts in a diary or journal format, usually listed in reverse chronological order.

→ Most blogs are interactice, allowing visitors to leave comments amd even message each other via widgets on the blogs 

→ Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries.

→ A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web.

WIKI

⇒ A collaborative web site that allows users to create, add to, modify, or delete that website content via their web browser.

→ The differences between a wiki and a blog is that users cannot modify original posts made by the blogger.

→ Visitors can also create new content and change the organization of existing content.

→ The simplest wiki programs allow editing of text and hyperlinks only

ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK

⇒Encourages members in its online community to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music and videos with other registered users.

BUSINESS

⇒Contains content that promotes or sells products or services.

• many of these enterprises also allow you to purchase their products or services online.
• eg. Pearl Haya Gallery, Anakku brand, Walt Disney Company