Kinds of the Website.

The main difficulty at the stage of discussing the order of a website is goal setting and, namely, defining the kind and the type of the site. In fact, precise goal setting makes the influence on the final result, which both the customer and contractor are concerned with. So, this article deals with the issue how to facilitate both the customer and contractor to choose the type and the kind of the site. 

According to the accessibilities of servers:

• Open – all services are entirely accessible for any visitors and users.
• Semi-open – to receive an access one shall register (usually free of charge).
• Closed -- entirely unaccessible in-house sites of companies (corporate sites inclusive), private sites. Such sites are accessible for inner circle of people. New people can obtain the access to the site by means of the so called invites (invitations).

According to the nature of content:

• Stative – the content is prepared in advance. The user is given the files in the form they are served on the server.
• Dynamic – the content is generated by special scripts (programmes) on the bases of any other source data.

According to the physical location:

• External sites in the Internet.
• Local sites – are accessible only within the local network. These could be both corporate and private sites in the local network of a provider.

According to the scheme of presenting the information, its size and category of issues being resolved the following types of web-resources can be defined:

1.    Internet representations of business owners (retailing and services which are not always directly connected with the Internet):  

• On-line Business Card - contains the most common data about the site owner (company or enteepreneur). Type of activities, history, price-list, contacts, requisites, location map. Specialists can place their CVs. Namely, a detailed business card.
• Representative web-site – a kind of on-line business card with advanced functionality: detailed description of services, portfolio, commentaries, form of backlink etc.
• Corporate web-site – contains a detailed information on a holding company, services/ products, corporate events. It differs from on-line business card and representative web-site in exhaustibility of the information, usually contains functional tools to work with the content (search and filters, calendar of events, photogalleries, corporate blogs and forums). Can be integrated with in-house informational systems of the holding company (KIS, CRM, accounting systems). Can contain no-access sections for certain groups of users – employees, dealers, partners etc.
• Produce Catalogue – the catalogue contains a detailed description of goods/ services, certificates, technical and consumer description, expert commentaries etc. On such sites there is posted the information which is usually not placed in price-lists.
• On-line shop – a website with a produce catalogue, by means of which a customer can order the necessary goods. Different payment systems are used:goods delivery by advanced charge or automatic bill faxing before payment by a plastic card.
• Promo-site is a site related to a particular trade mark or product. On such sites there is posted the complete information on the brand, different promotions (competitions, quizzes, games etc.)
•  Site-quest is a web-site where is organised a logic riddling competition.

2.    Informational resources:

• Theme-based site is a web-site providing particular information on a certain topic.
• Theme-based portal is a very large web-site, which provides comprehensive information on a certain topic. The portals are very much like theme-based sites but additionally contain means of interaction with users and provide users with the possibility to communicate within the portal (forums, chats), which are the very means of client existence.

3.    Web-service is a service used to fulfill tasks on-line.

• Notice Board
• Catalogue of Sites – e.g. Open Directory Project.
• Searching Engines – e.g. Yahoo, Google.
• E-mail Service.
• Web-forums.
• Blog Service.
• File-exchange Peering Service, e.g. Bittorrent.
• Data Hosting Service, e.g. Skydrive.
• Data Editoring Service, e.g. Google Docs.
• Photo Hosting, e.g. Picnik, ImageShack, Panoramio, Photobucket.
• Video Storage, e.g. YouTube, Dailymotion.
• Social Media, e.g. Buzz.

4. Combined Web-Sites (social networks) – e.g. Facebook, Twitter.

5. Combined Web Services (speciaised social networks), e.g. MySpace, Flickr.