Chapter 2, Problem 29SG

Explanation of Solution

Purpose of informational and research websites:

• This site deals with factual information like dictionaries, guides, libraries, and encyclopedias.
• This website targets the students and research professionals mainly.
• Example: website of Cambridge dictionary, website of Stanford University and so on.

Purpose of media sharing websites:

• Media sharing websites enable the members to manage and share media like photos, videos, and music.
• The target audiences for this type of websites are almost all categories of users.
• Example: Facebook, Twitter and so on.

Purpose of bookmarking websites:

• Bookmarking websites allow the members to organize, tag, and share links to media and other online content.
• Again the target audiences for this type of websites are almost all categories of users.
• Example: Pinterest, Scoop.it, and so on.

Purpose of news, weather, sports, and other mass media websites:

• The purpose of these websites is to convey newsworthy information or media.
• Again the target audiences for this type of websites are almost all categories of users except the kids or naive users.
• Example: website of BBC News, website of FIFA, and so on.

Purpose of educational websites:

• Educational websites offer exciting, challenging avenues that facilitates formal and informal teaching and learning.
• These websites mainly target the students or their parents.
• Example: website of Coursera, website of Academic Earth, and so on.

Purpose of business, governmental, and organizational websites:

• These are the websites that are designed to increase brand awareness, provides company background or any other information, and promotes or sells services or products.
• These websites are mainly used by the business groups.
• Example: website of Food and Drink-Craft Coffee, White House.gov’s Drupal site, and so on.

Purpose of blogs websites:

• This website is an informal website that consists of time-stamped articles, or posts, in a diary or journal format, and these are usually listed in reverse chronological order.
• These websites concentrate on the group of people who may take the content as helpful stuff where as some users read and write blogs.
• Example: Help Scout, Design Milk, and so on.

Purpose of wikis and collaboration websites:

• Wikis and other collaboration websites enable the users to create, add, modify, or delete the website content via browser.
• The target users constitute of almost all category of users.
• Example: Wikipedia and so on.

Purpose of health and fitness websites:

• These websites provide information about medical, fitness, nutrition, exercise or even allows some of the users to listen to health related seminars and discussions.
• These websites target the users who seek for medical guidance or some medical professionals to expand the knowledge.
• Example: Miss Fitizen, Strength HQ, and so on.

Purpose of science websites:

• These websites contain information about astronomy, physics, microgravity, space explorations, and much other related stuff.
• This mainly focuses on users who find content related to this field as useful else some professionals whose work is related to these studies.
• Example: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National geographic, and so on...