Welcome to Designing a Web Site
A small information on standard type of sites and the purpose :
Corporate website: used to provide background information about a business, organization, or service.
Electronic commerce (eCommerce) site: a site offering goods and services for online sale and enabling online transactions for such sales.
Community site: a site where persons with similar interests communicate with each other, usually by chat or message boards, such as MySpace or Facebook.
News site: similar to an information site, but dedicated to dispensing daily / weekly / monthly news and commentary.
School site: a site on which teachers, students, or administrators can post information about current events at or involving their school. elementary-high school websites generally use k12 in the URL, such as kearney.k12.mo.us.
Archive site: used to preserve valuable electronic content threatened with extinction. Two examples are: Internet Archive, which since 1996 has preserved billions of old (and new) web pages; and Google Groups, which in early 2005 was archiving over 845,000,000 messages posted to Usenet news/discussion groups.
Blog (or web log) site: sites generally used to post online diaries which may include discussion forums (e.g., blogger, Xanga).
Content site: sites whose business is the creation and distribution of original content (e.g., Slate, About.com).
Personal homepage: run by an individual or a small group (such as a family) that contains information or any content that the individual wishes to include. These are usually uploaded using a web hosting service such as Geocities.
City Site: A site that shows information about a certain city or town and events that takes place in that town. Usually created by the city council or other "movers and shakers". the same as those of geographic entities, such as cities and countries. For example, Richmond.com is the geodomain for Richmond, Virginia.
Gripe site: a site devoted to the critique of a person, place, corporation, government, or institution.
Humor site: satirizes, parodies or otherwise exists solely to amuse.
Information site: contains content that is intended to inform visitors, but not necessarily for commercial purposes, such as: RateMyProfessors.com, Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia. Most government, educational and non-profit institutions have an informational site.
Mirror site: A complete reproduction of a website.
Phish site: a website created to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business (such as Social Security Administration, PayPal) in an electronic communication (see Phishing).
Political site: A site on which people may voice political views.
Porn site: A site that shows sexually explicit content for enjoyment and relaxation, most likely in the form of an internet gallery, dating site, blog, or video sharing.
Rating site: A site on which people can praise or disparage what is featured.
Review site: A site on which people can post reviews for products or services.
Video sharing: A site that enables user to upload videos, such as YouTube and Google Video.
Search engine site: a site that provides general information and is intended as a gateway or lookup for other sites. A pure example is Google, and the most widely known extended type is Yahoo!.
Forums : A site dedicated for people involved in a particular proffesion or sharing simillar intrest gather to share, consult , discuss and pass related information
The above is just for your information on type of sites Now that the planning stage is out of the way it's time to get onto the more exciting stuff, Designing your web site. This section aims to cover some of the basics of web page design and layout using text and graphics.
If you jump straight in and start creating a web site straight away chances are that the site is going to be badly structured, look unprofessional, and not achieve it's full potential.
There are no hard and fast rules to creating a web site and the information found on this site is only a guideline and it is recommend that you try different ways till you find a way that suites your style and you feel comfortable with.
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