Want a Website? But what type of website You need ?

Technically speaking there are two types of websites. Static Website and Dynamic Website. But that is just one of the criteria for categorising websites. Also, these two types of websites (Static & Dynamic) are the broadest categories in themselves into which all other types of websites, under any criteria, can be grouped into.

So in a ways we can say that there are many different types of websites but all of them can be categorised into few groups depending on differebt criteria.But again these parameters can be numerous and even a website of one type can be put into more than one or two category. Some of the criteria for classification of the website are mentioned below:

Content: Website content plays an important role in categorising a website. Depending on how frequent the contents of a website changes for its visitors, website can be categoried as:

• Static Websites: A website that has fixed content for all its visitors is called a Static Website. These are generally informational websites for any product, services or professionals. These websites are also called catalogue wesbites. Read more→

• Dynamic Websites: A website that has does not have fixed content for all its visitors is called a Dynamic Website. Its contents may change for different users, different locations or under any other different situation.Example, banking websites that shows different account information for each different customer, news portals where the contents changes not only each new day but may also changes multiple times in a day. Web Applications, Enterprise Web Applications, Web Portals all are dynamic websites.

  Sometimes even situation arises when basically a Static websites in designed and developed like a dynamic website. These are static websites that have huge amount of content to display to users. Here dynamic websites technologies like database are used to display static content. Read more→

Target Device: These days we see multiple types of devices are used to access any website, static or dynamic. These types may be Desktop, Laptop, Tablets/iPads, very large display units or Mobile. ALso they all comes with different screen sizes, different resolutions, different orientations, different colour complexities and may be more in future. So websites are also categories based on what for what specific type of device it is developed and optimised for. These can be categorised as:

• Standard Websites: These websites, whether static or a dynamic, more perfectly fits and are optimised to display its contents in big screen of a desktop or a laptops.

• Mobile Websites: These websites, whether static or a dynamic, more perfectly fits the small hand held mobiles. They may have less content, compared to its desktop/laptop counter part, but more relevent only. They have less visuals and graphics and easy navigation. Read more→

• Responsive Websites (RWD): These websites, whether static or a dynamic, are developed keeping in mind multiple screen sizes and resolutions. These are bulkier than only mobile optimised websites as these are supposed to render their contents on multiple mobile devices along with on desktop and laptop. Though all of the rendering devices/screens vary in size, the Resposnsive Website Design handles the transition / resizing / reformating of the layout and contents gracefully in a very smooth and seamless fashion. Responsive design offers a fluid and flexible approach that dynamically adjusts to different screen size.

  A website with responsive design layout has a single layout applied to a web page that reformats and resizes all the elements of the webpage based on breakpoints. A breakpoint is a specific viewport width value (in pixels) that triggers a change in the website layout. These are set in CSS with media queries. Since responsive websites use breakpoints to rearrange or eliminate elements on a page, instead of simply resizing them. Therefore, a responsive layout might appear quite different on a desktop versus a tablet versus a smartphone. Read more→

• Adaptive Websites (AWD): These websites, whether static or a dynamic, are also developed keeping in mind multiple screen sizes and resolutions. Adaptive works to detect the screen size and load the appropriate static layout from a programmed library for it – generally adaptive website are designed for six common screen widths:

  • 320
  • 480
  • 760
  • 960
  • 1200
  • 1600

  Also for a adaptive website, you might notice that the layout changes abruptly when accessing the site from different devices or screen sizes, as it loads predefined layouts rather than fluidly adjusting to the screen size.

• Fluid Websites: Fluid websites are websites designed in such a way that he widths of page elements are set proportional to the width of the screen or browser window. A fluid website expands or contracts based on the width of the current viewport. It helps make websites more usable across device types with varying screen dimensions.

Informational website: These websites provides information on various topics. Best example are Wekipedia or Britanica encyclopedia websites.

Educational website: These are the websites for school, colleges, universities and private tutorial classes. Now a days the trend for online classes / tutions is very much there and increasing rapidly eliminating the barrier of boundaries and particular time duratiion for acquiring knowledge by the desirious candidates.

Social Media website: This is the most popular website where people can connect with each other. Social media websites enable the user to share their personal information, pictures, video ideas, and opinion in real-time. Facebook , Instagram , X (formely Twitter) , Pinterest , are some examples of social media websites.

Transactional website: These are the websites that allow some sort of financial transactions. They include online services providers, retailors, banking websites etc. Most common example are e-commerce website like Amazon and Flipkart .

Blog: A blog, short for weblog, is a frequently updated web page used for personal commentary or business content. Blogs are often interactive and include sections at the bottom of individual blog posts where readers can leave comments. Read more→

Microsite: A microsite is a website that promotes a company's products, services, campaigns, events, or entire brand. They're small websites or single web pages that use a different domain or subdomain, separating them from the company's main website. They are often used to target specific audiences or to promote a single campaign. Read more→

Landing page: A landing page is a standalone web page, created specifically for a marketing or advertising campaign. It's where a visitor “lands” after they click on a link. Read more→

Web Application: is a dynamic website with some very specific purpose. It may be for public or private use. Web applications are basically developed for bring some business process online. Read more→

Enterprise Web Application: is a web-based software solution, a very big web application (a dynamic website) designed to support and automate business processes in large organizations (enterprises). Read more→

Web Portals: is a website (a dynamic website / a very large scale enterprise web application ) or online platform that provides a centralized access point to a wide range of information, services, and resources, often tailored to the needs of a specific group of people. It serves as a gateway to various content or tools, offering users a single interface where they can access multiple services. A portal can display contents from multiple sources. Read more→

And the list goes endless...