Website Types - Internet Technologies

What are Website Types?

Internet Forums

Key Points

• A forum can consists of number of sub forms.
• Each of sub forums may consist again a number of topics.
• Thread is a new discussion under forum’s topic.
• Any number of people can reply to the thread.

Blog

Blog is a Content Management System (CMS) where articles are published on the internet on regular basis with content about anything.

Blogging Terminologies

BLOG

It is a website where content is published on the internet.

BLOGGER

A person writing the content for a blog.

BLOGGING

It is referred to writing for blogs.

BLOGOSPHERE

It is a term used to refer all the blogs on the web.

What to Blog about

Let us discuss what should be written about and what should be the name of your blog.

• Write whatever you are good at. Consider if you are good at computer knowledge, you can write about the subject.
• Write what you have learned from your experience and share it through blog.
• Write in detail about your research.

E-commerce

To reduce cost and improve the quality of goods and services while increasing the speed of delivery of business organizations, vendors and customers; E-commerce is a methodology of modern business. It is a form of paperless exchange of business information using below ways.

• Electronic Data Exchange (EDI)
• Electronic Mail (e-mail)
• Electronic Bulletin Boards
• Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT)
• Other Network-based technologies

Features

E-Commerce offers below features:

NON-CASH PAYMENT

Using credit cards, debit cards, smart cards, electronic fund transfer via bank’s website and other modes of electronics payment, non-cash payment is achieved.

24X7 SERVICE AVAILABILITY

E-commerce provides 24x7 supports to the customers being available anytime. This automates the business of enterprises and services provided by them.

ADVERTISING / MARKETING

The products can be advertised and marketing is increased using E-commerce.

IMPROVED SALES

Sales are increased using E-commerce as the dependencies for buying a product decreases. Orders can be put anytime and anywhere.

SUPPORT

To provide better services to customer, E-commerce offers several ways to offer pre sales and post sales assistance.

Portfolio

It is a collection of group of images, emails, blog entries, multimedia and hyperlinks. It can be seen as a kind of learning record that provides actual evidence of achievement.

Types

Online portfolio is of three types:

• Developmental (e.g. working)
• Reflective (e.g. learning)
• Representational (e.g. showcase)

Developmental portfolio has all the things that a user has done over a time period.

Reflective portfolio has the personal reflection on the data.

Representational online portfolio is referring to learner’s achievement in a particular work.