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Different Types of Websites to Build

STATIC WEBSITE

A static website is your traditional website that you will see when you enter an "established" company. It is basically an online brochure, you can see this type of website with a local search. For example, take a look at a dentist or doctor's website. It will list the services they offer, as well as, how you can get to their business. Not very exciting, but it is usually targeted to the local market in their area.

NICHE WEBSITE

A niche website is based around a service, a product or idea that is not being supplied or serviced. The niche is usually a sub-market of a larger market for a given service or product.

If you happen upon an idea that will fit a niche market, you will need to do some of the following:

• Research-To determine who your target market is, and if there is an interest in this sub-service or sub-product.
• What opportunities are there for generating income from your niche website (If that is your purpose).
• Will the information you give the visitors be beneficial. Remember, on the Internet, people will not buy unless it will benefit them in some way.

An authority website takes a long time to build. But...if that is the direction you want to go, then the planning should start when you are beginning to layout your website design. If you do it well, you'll have the search engines, traffic and advertisers coming to you.

An example of a authority site is, About.com. If you go into the site, you'll notice that the different categories are divided by subdomains. 


E-COMMERCE

An E-commerce website can be a brick and mortar business, with an online presence as well. Or it can be a start-up business run out of a person's home, with products stored in their garage or in a rented warehouse. An e-commerce site sole purpose is to sell merchandise to it's target market. 

Some of the typical elements of an e-commerce site are:

1. All products should have photos and descriptions. With accessible links so that individuals can look at the product.
2. Easy Navigation
3. E-commerce shopping cart. Shopping cart software can either be included in the web hosting plan or can cost you up to $500.
4. Payment Gateway - The Payment Gateway is a service that will help you to process your payment methods.
5. Shipping-If you have physical products to ship you will have to estimate your shipping charges and determine whether you will only ship within the states or Internationally.
6. 800-number, contact number, or email contact. If customers have no way of contacting you, in the Internet world you just put up a red flag that tell any would-be visitor, "It's time to leave!".

I've just skimmed over the basics of what you need to be thinking about when constructing an e-commerce website. Though it may seem simple, don't be fooled-it's not. This website venture can be time consuming, if prices and products change often.

MINI SITE

A mini site can be a website that gives information about one specific product or service. It can have various multimedia content, such as narrated introduction, visuals or other forms of animation to attract or immerse the visitor in the experience.

You see this type of website with digital products, such as PDF eBooks, interactive web videos, audio, and podcasts.

Basic elements of a Mini Site Page may include:

1. Graphic header, title, subtitle
2. Sales content
3. Testimonials
4. Order form
5. P.S. section
6. The author or seller of the product signature


BLOG

A blog is another type of website. A blog has been coming into it's own over the years. It's beginning was with online personal journaling, but it has grown into a viable "website" type. With WordPress you can create a domain, and host it through a web hosting service. However, I would advice, reading up on the mechanics of WordPress before jumping in with both feet.

With a blog, you will need to constantly be adding new content. Not only will your readers be hungry for content, but also the search engines. As to how often you should update your blog, it depends upon what your readers will bear. It could be hourly, daily, or weekly. I've never seen anyone stretch it to a monthly entry, but if your readers will accept that little of input, go for it.


MOBILE WEBSITE

More and more, Internet marketers are beginning to recognize the importance of mobile phone users. Why? More and more are using this mobile phone to connect to the Internet. And the ready market is around 2.4 million mobile phone users and growing. Which means, anyone who wants to get a bigger share of the Internet market may want to create a mobile website.


What you need to know when building a mobile website:

1. Tables will not look right on mobile phones
2. CSS must be used to ensure compatibility
3. Your site should be coded according to the local in which you want to market. For instance, XHTML Basic and XHTML MP are used in North America and Europe; and  CHTML is used in Japan.
4. You may need to incorporate more radio buttons and lists that the phone user can choose from because, as many of you already know, it is difficult to enter text in mobile web sites.
5. Images should be jped or gif format.
6. Your web page cannot be more than 20 kilobytes to fit properly.
7. Once you have constructed your website be sure to validate and test. You want to make sure that what you have created can be seen on a mobile phone.


Commercial Web Hosting- What should your minimum requirement be?

You will find that web hosting is very competitive, which is a great plus for the individual buying the hosting service. As you begin your search for a web hosting service you will quickly notice that they come in many price ranges, with different bells and whistles to meet everyone's needs. But there are some minimum requirements that you should consider.

1. Does it offer customer service 24/7?
2. Enough bandwidth for increased traffic 
3. Email Accounts -- At least 3
4. Does it supply you with traffic stats?
5. Does the hosting packages provide room for your site to grow?
6. Is the price reasonable?
7. Does the company have a good record of server uptime?
8. Does it offer a variety of website templates (for those will no HTML experience).
9. Are the support people fast and helpful and is the support reachable.
10. For those  not experienced with HTML do they offer a WYSIWYG program to get you up and running quickly.
11. PHP- php capabilities gives you some server side scripting capabilities.
12. Crontabs- As your business grows, cron capabilities will come in handy. Cron capabilites allows you to schedule procedures automatically on your website. For example: Updating your sitemap on a weekly basis.
13. SSH Access- This gives you direct access to your pages from the server. If you have CGI scripts this makes the job easier for testing.
14. FTP Access - Though you may decide to use SiteBuilder program that the company may offer, remember your skill level or needs will change. For instance, you may decide to use WordPress as your platform, and decide to pay someone else to do the upgrades as they come available. If that is the case, they will need FTP access to your site.
15. .htaccess is needed if you customize your error pages or need to protect your site.
16. SSL - This is a secure server for a shopping cart if you have an ecommerce site. 
17. Autoresponders- I'm not talking about the full blown capabilities of a program like AWeber. This type of autoresponder allows you to only send a preset message to a customer.