Organisation Websites - Generally these type of website’s don’t manage any sales and the primary focus is to promote the organisation in question. These type of website’s maybe charities or sporting clubs and most of these website’s are content driven and focused around the relevant community the organisation is targeting.

Creating a website for an organization can have its moments where in house politics may get involved in the building process with so many ideas coming from every direction. If you’re looking at building a website for your organization make sure everyone participates and you have your answers for the topics and look and feel you will cover so you don’t get interrupted during the website building stage.

A website for an organisation or charity has a target audience of it’s members and potential new members that can join over time. Information such as event times, info guides, meeting schedules, agendas and so on can be made available either by a member login or the information being made available to everyone.

This is a decision you will need to make with the organization committee that has commissioned the website.
With my experience I find that generally there may be up to 2 people who will manage the content of a website like this and its best this type of website uses a database driven system that has an admin control panel where members with certain permissions can login and manage the website content easily without worrying too much on how to use FTP and website building software.

These types of website’s generally have a member forum only as well where information can be shared amongst members with a ho create a question and answer type of forum.

Business website are developed by small Business owners such as Plumber’s, Electrician’s or a Curtain maker. Some of these website’s might be just about self promotion and some website owners might want to sell some of there products via there website.

The focus of building these types of website’s are about promotion and generating extra sales. These types of website are generally small and don’t exceed more than 30 html web pages and most of these website’s have been designed and built by first time business owners who have learnt to build a website as they do learn how to do this.

Due to the learning exercise a small business owner may not take the extra step to learning how to build a website using a database and more often than not a database driven website is not generally required.
These types of website’s are designed and built mostly by the owner themselves.
The content of the website is based on the Business in question and these types of website’s more act like
an online catalogue displaying the Business products.

I think if your intention is to build a website for your Business look at creating a website based on content that is related to your  business then capitalise on the traffic by promoting and selling your services.

The good thing about this is that you end up building your website with a focus on search engine optimisation and you can show your potential customers that you’re an expert in this field as well. Generally business websites don’t require a merchant account to process orders because these order amounts suit using a processing company like paypal.com or 2checkout.com.

One last thing when building a small Business website and that is make sure it’s warm and welcoming and provide as much free content possible for the purpose of driving traffic into your website.

Information Website  - Building this type of website is a rewarding and enjoyable experience with the opportunity of making money from your website as well. To create a website of this calibre you need to make sure that you build a website you have knowledge and passion about and strictly focus on one thing only and that is building a website with quality accurate FREE content.

As they say build it and they will come and to achieve this be prepared to build a website with over 150 web pages. You might be wondering my so many Web pages but there are 2 reasons behind this.

1. By having a content rich website with so many web pages your website will become an expert in your chosen field.

2. If you do this correctly and each page has 10 visits per day then your estimated traffic per day could be 150 web pages x 10 visits per day = 1500 visits per day.

When you build an Information website do not focus about making money from it. Keep these thoughts away but as long as you know you can do this reserve these thoughts and revisit this at a latter stage once your website is established and what I mean by this is it becomes a high traffic website.

Popular websites you can think about building include:
1. Product review sites for a certain niche.
2. PC help related website.
3. Cooking using a particular style.
4. Resumes writing.
5. Tourism based information website.
6. Electronic Niche type of website such as RC Cars.

Whatever you decide to do make sure you build a website about topics you have passion about and make sure you provide clear and precise FREE information.

If you stick with these simple rules you will have an enjoyable experience building a website, nurturing it and watching it growto become a very popular online resource.

Multimedia Website is a great way to capture your audience with animated graphics that could serve two purposes  the first being a way of showcasing your services if you were a design company or if you were attempting to capture the younger audience.

There are of course other factors that include cool visual effects.

The most common format to use when you build a multimedia website is using the Flash format.

There are two ways to do this.

This first is to create the website using a program called Flash®. This program takes a while to master and the
learning curve is not easy. I personally gave up using this software after I was trained due to the complexity I found learning this software program. You might encounter a different experience than what I have so your experience may be a better one than mine.

Another alternative is to use a third part software program that creates Flash files. These programs are cheaper and in many cases very easy to learn. A quick search in Google and you will find many programs to choose from.

My suggestion is to try out a few before you decide to purchase a programs so you can get the feel of the program and whether you can out grow using this software. If you’re building a flash website customers don’t care how it’s done as long as the output is in Flash.

One draw back with building a multimedia website using flash is that it is very difficult to optimise your website for search engines due to the content being inside the Flash file so before you build it think about it.

Another method of building a Multimedia website is to create it using the Shockwave® file format.Shockwave® files are typically created using a program called Director and its easy to learn, funand an awesome software program to use.

I am not aware of a third pay product that can build a shockwave file.

The difference between Flash® and Shockwave® files is that Flash® is more popular and the Flash® plugin is installed in more browsers than the Shock wave plugin.

Flash® and Shockwave® are products created by adobe.com

Ecommerce Websites is a website either owned by a co-corporation or small Business who is interested in selling
products and services online.  These types of website’s are both designed and built using HTML technology or using a Database to display content and products.

There are many factors to take into account when you’re considering building an ecommerce website which includes the technology that will be used to build a website and whether to use a database.

When using a database the most popular combos used are either PHP and mysql or ASP and mssql.

PHP is an open source scripting language that drives the database and mysql is an open source database that stores data. Both are very popular amongst Business’ and programmers. ASP (Active Server Page) and mssql (A solid performing database) are both Microsoft products. To use the Microsoft products your website needs to be hosted on a Windows
NT based server.

Once you have your website up and running you will need to create a shopping cart and be able to accept credit cards.

There are numerous open source free to use shopping carts. It might be an idea to approach your Bank for a credit card merchant account which will enable you to take both phone orders and online orders.

If this fails you can always open a merchant account with World Pay which provides you with your own credit card merchant account.

One important step is to make sure that you optimise your website for Search Engines and you can do this by applying the correct keywords.

One other way to build ecommerce websites is to hire a programmer that can do the whole process for you efficiently and within your set time frame. Programmers charge different prices but it might be worth placing your requirement on scriptlance.com where programmers are able to bid for your project.