How many types of websites are there? The answer depends on who you ask. In this post I only briefly discuss a few types, based on two sources on the web.
At YouTube there is a video on five popular types of websites called 5 Website Types & How To Design Them | Free Web Design Course 2020 | Episode 16. Here is a list of the 5 types in the video and the timestamps of each.
- E-commerce [00:59]
- Marketing / Business [4:38]
- Blog / Media outlet [8:39]
- Educational [11:41]
- Portfolio [14:23]
At HostGator they discuss the 12 popular types of websites in an article called 12 Popular Types of Websites You Can Create.
- 1. eCommerce Website
- 2. Business Website
- 3. Entertainment Website
- 4. Portfolio Website
- 5. Media Website
- 6. Brochure Website
- 7. Nonprofit Website
- 8. Educational Website
- 9. Infopreneur Website
- 10. Personal Website
- 11. Web Portal
- 12. Wiki or Community Forum Website
1. eCommerce Website
2. Business Website
3. Entertainment Website
4. Portfolio Website
The portfolio website is a personal website about a person and what they have done and can do. Service providers who want to show potential clients the quality of the work they provide can use a portfolio website to collect some of the best samples of past work they’ve done.
5. Media Website
6. Brochure Website
Brochure websites are a simplified form of business websites. You don’t want to invest a lot of money into it. A simple brochure site that includes just a few pages that lay out the basics of what you do and provide contact information may be enough for you.
7. Nonprofit Website
8. Educational Website
These websites are dedicated to teaching people through text, picture, diagrams or videos. Some websites serve as the online presence for an existing institution. The design challenge here is that you want to engage people. You want them to stay on your website and keep learning. So how do you get people excited and keep them entertained? You can use different types of content such as text, videos, pictures and interactive things like timelines that move when the user hovers with the mouse.
9. Infopreneur Website
Infopreneur websites overlap a bit with business, eCommerce and educational websites, but they represent a unique type of online business. Infopreneurs create and sell information products. That could be in the form of courses, tutorials, videos or ebooks.