9 different types of web sites

Web Designer is the one who studies and creates the shell of a website. But before start coding, good web designers must understand and analyze what kinds of website customer needs.

Different types of websites have unique features that must be given to consideration in the preliminary phase. And depend on different types of website you have to start with different types of foundation.

It would be blatantly wrong, wanting to make a trivial example, approaching the work for the development of an e-commerce site as if your client asked for a Website or a blog. This is because changing the purpose of the site also changes your way of presenting the contents and hence the arrangement of the elements on the page.

Let me summarize different types of websites; a web designer might have design:

1. Blog -It’s a kind of diary in which the author writes articles and readers can comment on it.

2. Community– It is a digital platform for people to meet and contact with similar interest people through forums, chat, private messages etc.

3. E-commerce– An e-commerce site is nothing more than an online store through which people can purchase various kinds of products and service. These types of site are built with software that can run automatically several aspects such as the acquisition of the order, payment, billing etc.

4. E-zine– A digital magazine is something very similar to a Blog. Main difference from blog is that it requires the collaboration of a variety of authors and usually more formal structured and “professional”.

5. Management– -It’s a computing platforms dedicated to the management various types of data. Such as the software for inventory management, invoicing to CMR etc. Normally the web designer job is to design stable and most intuitive user interface for data.

6. Portal– Portals allow people to take advantage of heterogeneous services and give “gateway” to various resources. The horizontal portals collect content and services to diverse audiences and the vertical portals focus on specific issues of a well–defined segment for users.

7. Portfolio– It is a particular type of website whose main aim is to show the public a series of work done by a professional (in an example a photographer or an artist) or a company.

8. Corporate website– It is a classic corporate site. It is a set of web pages and it presents history and service of any company.

9. Personal website– The purpose of this type website is to provide the ownership with a form of online visibility. There are two types of personal website that are professional and amateur (amateur site talks about a hobby or other personal issues).