The Internet is teeming with a variety of information, and all of it is contained on the pages of websites. They are a kind of "container" for elements united by a certain theme and design - texts, pictures and graphics, video materials and more. Depending on the purpose and direction, sites can be divided into categories. Currently, there is no generally accepted classification of web resources, but their main types can be distinguished. So what are the sites in a virtual network? This article will answer this question.
Types of sites: classification
Each web resource has its own purpose in the network, otherwise it would not be created. The goals can be of a different nature - commercial interest, search and dissemination of information, knowledge sharing, dating, communication, etc. Let's see what sites are depending on their information content.
Corporate resource
It combines information about a particular company or brand. Depending on thethe purpose of creating such a site can be image or informational. The first is aimed at an external audience and contains information about the organization itself, its history, services or products provided. This site usually has a news feed, information about promotions, information for partners and the press. Here you can often find a product catalog, if any.
The second one is necessary for internal optimization of workflow processes, taking into account important indicators of the company. It may contain communication tools between remote branches. As a rule, an administrative panel is built into the information site for managing content, updating news, help and other articles.
Promo site
As a rule, this resource consists of several pages containing some kind of information about the company. You can select specific types of materials for a site of this nature. This information about the company, information about products and services, price lists, contacts. Almost every company today has such sites, they represent the organization on the network and are extremely important for business.
Personal or author's blog
In the past few years, this type of site has become especially widespread. Usually the author of such a resource is one person (rarely - several), who publishes information on a topic of interest to him. The author's blog assumes the presence of a large circle of readers (unlike a diary) and the ability to communicate both with each other and with the creator of the site. The author mayshare with the audience both his observations and third-party materials that he found interesting. There are no rules for maintaining or designing a blog - everyone implements it based on personal tastes and views.
Portal
This resource contains a large amount of information, as it combines various types of sites on the Internet and various services into a common system. Moreover, it can be both thematic (for example, dedicated to cooking, music or politics), and public, designed for a wide audience (news services, communities, etc.).
Video, audio archives and services
What are the sites that contain materials in audio or video format? The most popular services today are Youtube, RuTube, Vimeo, Ivi, Stream, etc. Here you can find both official and user-recorded videos, movies, music files.
Social network
These sites are designed primarily for communication. They unite users from different cities and even countries (Facebook, VKontakte, etc.). In addition to exchanging messages and photos, you can spend time here with interest and benefit. A huge number of groups dedicated to a wide variety of topics, applications and games, articles, music, video materials, including films … Today, a social network is a whole world transferred to virtual reality.
Online store
This is an interactive site that advertises and sells products over the Internet. Today, e-commerce is more popular than ever, andE-commerce turnover is increasing every year. In this regard, the need to create such resources is high. On the website of the online store, visitors can choose a product, order it, make a payment and receive an order confirmation. All this is implemented by the resource's built-in services.
Promo site
Usually, such a resource is an additional resource for a company and is created specifically to promote a certain product, service, or promotion. As a rule, it is optimized for search engines in order to attract a huge number of visitors, and therefore get more income. With the help of such sites, both one specific product and an entire product group can be promoted.
Forum site
Another type of site that is very popular today. At the same time, it can be both the main resource and a section of the main site. It is intended for communication of visitors, exchange of opinions and advice, discussion of some topics. The forum site is also important from the point of view of increasing the traffic of the resource, and the topics opened on it can be used as news announcements and for mailing lists.
Search engines
All of the listed main types of sites, as well as many other resources and services can be found on the Internet using search engines. Their existence is well known to every netizen, and the most popular are constantly heard.
Conclusion
In the article we examined what sites are in the modern virtual network, what they arepresent. As you can see, the Internet contains a huge variety of resources that are both entertaining and informational, commercial.
