5 Types Of websites

Static or Dumb website:
A “static” or “dumb” website is mechanism for a one-way information transfer from the company to the website visitors. Going through such a website is like browsing through company’s brochures. The advantage over a hard-copy brochure is that it can easily and frequently be updated with the latest company information and can reach the millions of known users at the same time.
However, not much e-mileage can be achieved. Worse, most Web Users get quickly bored with an electronic brochure that gives them no possibility to interact with the company, and they therefore less likely visit the site again and again.

Simple Interactive Website:
This allows visitors to search the website for topics of interest, query the company on various matters, and request additional information. Replies from the company come by more traditional methods such as e-mail, a telephone call or the ordinary mail.
Some simple interactive sites (both B2B and B2C) allows users to place ordering inquiries online, but order confirmation, payment and fulfillment take place only after this process has been activated by a traditional method, be it face to face, over the phone, or via e-mail. Both static and simple interactive websites are relatively quick and easy to implement, as it is purely the front end, or customer facing function of the company. Later is slightly costlier than the first one.

Transactional Interactive websites:
This offers not only the two-way information interactions but also the ability to conduct trading transactions. All processes associated with transaction (such as checking the buyer’s credit standing, checking specific terms of trade between the two companies, checking inventory status for physical goods, fulfillment, delivery confirmation, and adding the transaction to the buyers monthly bill) are executed either by the web-enabled applications or by traditional applications integrated with the company’s Web Architecture.

Portal Website:
This type of website offers broad range of online interactions and transactions. They usually enable information and transaction exchange between many companies as well as individuals. Portals are often divided into “hortals” and “vortals”, an abbreviation of horizontal and vertical portals. A typical hortal is a B2C site (as well as P2P-person to person or peer to peer) catering for information and trade exchange across a broad range of interests and across many industries. Yahoo is a good example. A vortal offers the same facilities, but concentrates on companies with interest in the same vertical industry. A portal that invites the presence of other companies, for either information provisioning or actual business transactions, is known as a B2B e-marketplace or an e-exchange.

"learning Website":
This type of website does not only enable information exchange and online exchange and online transactions, but also personalizes them to the requirements and preferences of individuals and companies. Over several login sessions, a learning website gradually learns your preferences and is able to present to you both content and format that are more likely to satisfy your or your company’s needs. The website not only learns your preferences from your previous log-in sessions, but also cross relates what it has learnt against other users so that it can suggest to you options you may have not previously considered. This concept of using data mining techniques to individualize offers on a large scale is also known as “mass customization” It is more commonly used in B2C than B2B.

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