At the beginning of formation of the Russian Internet when only specialists used computers, the websites served mostly two purposes: to increase in skill of their creators and filling of their leisure. Today it is difficult to find the person who does not have the equipment connected to a wide area network, and therefore scopes of the websites there was great variety.
Platitude
The word site is translated from English as "place". It designates information on the company or the person collected in one place of the Internet. Information can be in the form of texts, audio- and videos, images, databases, etc. Everything that fills the website, is content, contents. Some resources inform the visitors on important events in the world, others advertize goods, the third allow people to communicate among themselves.
The personal website is created most often in the following cases: when there is a wish to inform of the views or when there is desire to earn money a wide range of persons. Firms create websites, pursuing in addition to the first two purposes, also a third: increase in the prestige. There are also resources created first of all for a communication possibility between people - social networks, forums and mageboards. There are also entertainment and information and news portals. Most often creators of the websites pursue not one, and at once several purposes from listed.
Promoting of views, ideas and goods
Internet users great variety, each of them can make almost instantly a "virtual" trip on any page and get acquainted with its contents. It does the Internet in general and the websites in particular by convenient instruments of promotion anything, from advantages of goods of a certain brand to philosophical or religious doctrine. Content and design of a resource are selected to create a positive or negative image something, connected with the advanced subject. Such websites, as a rule, accumulate around themselves the people interested in a discussion subject.
Earnings
Exactly thanks to property of the website to advertize something, his creator can get direct or indirect profit. In the first case the owner of a resource, for example, leases the place on it to everyone to place advertizing, receiving from it money. In the second case advertizing of own goods of the owner of the website increases sales volume, increasing thus its income. The websites are created by some persons also in the illegal purposes, for example, for the fraudulent scheme thanks to which it is possible to be enriched at the expense of excessively trustful visitors.
Prestige and image
In this case the websites advertize not so much goods and services, how many owners, showing to the whole world their success and the importance. Firms or people create positive (and sometimes and not really) an image in the opinion of visitors of a resource. For the rest technology of advance is similar to option with promoting of views and the ideas.
Forums and chats, social networks
This type of the websites differs from previous in the fact that content is created mostly by visitors who communicate on interesting their topics. Creators provide only usability with a resource and an internal order of discussion. On such websites the people get acquainted and are on friendly terms, communicate, otherwise, satisfy the social requirements.
Television on the Internet, news feeds, browser games
The similar websites can be used as instruments of promotion and earnings of money, but their main objective is to convey to people of news, information and also to entertain them, to take free time. On attendance these sites successfully compete with other types of the websites, including with social networks.