Types of Dynamic-Content websites.

"Standard websites":

• Information sites promoting products/services primarily to potential customers, new and existing.
• Promote the site owner and their profile on the Internet.
• Provide a means for a target audience to contact you via email, ordinary mail, phone, etc.

Shopping Carts:

• Sales of products/services to online customers.
• Brief details or extended details about products, including links to other web pages or sites.
• Password identification to allow different prices to be displayed to different customers.
• Online Delivery or Standard Freight. Local or Overseas. Automatic Freight Calculations can be done.
• E-mail Notification of customer and site admin.
• Credit Card or "Net Cash" or Account Sales.

Catalogues:

• Information about products/services supplied to potential customers.
• Brief details or extended details about products, including links to other web pages or sites.
• Password identification to allow different prices to be displayed to different customers.
• Automatic Freight Calculations can be done.
• E-mail Notification of customer and site admin.
• Questions about products saved and forwarded to site owner.

Portals:

• Corporate or Enterprise (Intranet) Portals - These are applications that enable companies to UNLOCK internally stored information, and provide users with a single gateway to PERSONALIZED information and knowledge to make informed business DECISIONS.
• e-Business (Extranet) Portals:
  such as business to customer (B2C) which extend the enterprise to its customers for the purpose of ordering, billing, customer service, self-service, etc.\
• Business to business (B2B) portals extend the enterprise to its suppliers and partners. B2B portals are transforming the supplier and value chain process and relationships
• e-Marketplace portals or ASP portals.
• Personal (WAP) portals - There are two major types of personal portals:
  • Mobility portals are portals that are embedded in web phones, cellular phones, wireless PDAs, pagers, etc. Personal or mobility portals are becoming increasingly popular and important for consumers and employees to obtain product and services information, prices, discounts, availability, order status, payment status, shipping status, scheduling and installation information, etc.
  • Appliance portals - These are portals that are embedded in TVs (WebTV), automobiles (OnStar), etc.
• Public or Mega (Internet) portals:
  Organizations that fit into this category are becoming "new media" companies and are focused on building large on-line audiences with large demographics or professional orientation.
  There are two major types of public portals:
  • General public portals or mega portals address the entire Internet versus a specific community of interest.
  • Industrial portals and vertical portals which are rapidly growing and are focused on specific narrow audiences or communities such as consumer goods, computers, retail, banking, insurance, etc.

Directories:

• These are organized and categorized listings of Web sites.
• Web directories are organized Web site listings put together by human reviewers.
• They link to site home pages as submitted by site owners.
• Often a directory includes a search engine for supplemental listings.

Extranets:

• An extranet is a private network that uses the Internet to securely share part of a business's information or operations with other organisations and individuals.
• An extranet can be viewed as part of a company's intranet that is extended to users outside the company.
• An extranet requires security and privacy, which is achieved by various means.
• An extranet can be used to:
  • Exchange large volumes of data using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Share product catalogs exclusively with others
  • Enable Collaboration with others on joint development efforts
  • Enable joint development and use of training programs with others
  • Provide access to services from one company to others
  • Share news of common interest exclusively with others.

Intranets:

• An Intranet is a private system of communication between computers within an organisation.
• It uses Internet technology and protocols to allow communications between internal clients via an internal server. The server also often acts as a common central source of information and software resources.
• It is seen as a universal software application, a source of information and a communication tool.
• Many Intranets are located within a local area network and cut off completely from the Internet.
• Others, particularly those where the client computers are separated by large distances, do not have a local network at all. Instead, they rely on the Internet to for communications and supply connections to a private server.

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