Website Format
Types of Websites

Consider these examples of some of the most common types of websites:

• How To: Take a lesson from the wildly popular For Dummies series to create a site that explains how to do something
  
  
• Reviews: Consumer Reports is an example of a useful review concept
  
  
• Entertainment: Celebrities, movies, video games to music trends, inspirational quotes or to simply provide amusement
  
  
• Educational: An instructional focus for teaching such topics as preparing home schooling curriculum, writing techniques, and the basic principles of financial management
  
  
• News: Whether global, local or related to a specific topic like legislation or the whether the focus is typically on current events
  
  
• Interactive Community: Exchanging and sharing thoughts, opinions or information via forums or other response driven modalities such as Facebook, My Space or LinkedIn
  
  
• Corporate: Company details, mission statement, philosophy; rather like an online brochure
  
  
• eCommerce: Specifically designed to provide information and to generate revenue by promoting products
  
  
• Shopping: Showcase for products. The most popular example is Amazon.com