1) Intranet or Extranet

Share private information and data with authorized users such as employees, contractors or coleagues either within a company network (intranet) or accessible over the internet (extranet).

2) Business Website

Advertise, market and promote your business, services or products online. Commonly seen as a small, clean, professional company website consisting mainly of pages with helpful information about your products and services.

3) E-Commerce Website

An online storefront to directly sell your products and services. Merchant tools such as shopping carts, product management and online payment systems are available.

4) Community Site

Build an online community with easy-to-use content management. Support personal profiles, online chat, image and file uploads, blogs, downloads, message boards, searchable interface, and more.

5) Database Site

Provide desirable content through a searchable interface. Examples include sports statistics and movie showtimes.

6) Development Site

Share up-to-date information on projects currently in development, relates to software, websites, games, architecture, building, etc.

7) Directory Site

Group other websites into categories and sub-categories for a yellow-pages style directory.

8) Download Site

Offer downloads of full version (paid) or shareware/freeware software. An extensive database and a considerable amount of disk space is usually required.

9) Employment or Job Site

Prospective employees post their resume, employers search through resumes and post jobs online.

10) Gaming Site

Consists of many small games grouped into an online arcade, or centered around one giant online multiplayer game.

11) Informational Website

Relates to government, eductational, or institutional websites including charities and non-profit organizations. Used mainly to inform, educate and offer visitors a place to keep up-to-date.

12) Online Magazine or E-zine Website

Content based site with articles about a particular subject matter. Commonly used with a content management system to allow upload of articles from many sources in various geographical locations.

13) News Site

Content based site with articles written about various news related topics. Information offered can include local, national, and international news, weather, classifieds, etc.

14) Political Site

Information based website to educate visitors on politcal views or policies. Most elected officials will have their own website to clearly state their views and opinions.

15) Streaming Media Site

Allows visitors to download or stream audio and video into their web-browser. Webmaster may be compensated through advertising or directly through paid memberships as seen on many pornography websites.

16) Rating or Review Site

Users and editors submit ratings or reviews on products or services, and may also offer side-to-side comparisons for online shoppers.

17) Search Engine Site

Collects information from websites

18) Personal or Family Site

Keep friends and relatives up-to-date on family matters. It's common to keep an ongoing online photo gallery of a vacation or road trip.

19) Web-log or Blog

Online personal diary that anybody can read, share and make comments about.