1. Blog
Think of a blog as an online journal or a place to share information. Blog owners use it to share their feelings, opinions, knowledge and experiences, and of the 12 types of website here, it is the easiest to build. Travel bloggers, food bloggers, politicians and artists often run this kind of personal website.
When a blog takes off, most bloggers aim to earn a good income from it by writing sponsored content and product reviews, running ads and selling products on commission.
2. Corporate website
A corporate website’s main purpose is to give a business an online presence. It provides information about your products and services that encourages people to buy, without a hard sell. Because it presents everything about your business in one place, 24/7, it helps clients trust you more.
3. E-commerce website
What sets an e-commerce website apart from a corporate one is e-commerce functionality: customers can buy and pay directly by card.
It is your business’s online store, and it can be combined with a blog or a corporate site. In Myanmar, shop.com.mm is a well-known example.
4. Portfolio website
A portfolio website brings together your best work in one place. If the saying is “show, don’t tell”, a portfolio is the proof: a collection of work you have already done.
For example, an architect who gathers all their building designs on a portfolio website doesn’t need to say much to win new clients; people come to them because they want to hire them. Portfolios are especially popular with freelancers.
5. Brochure website
A brochure website is your business’s online business card. If it says what your business does and gives your address and phone number, you already have one. It is built only with the simplest, most essential information, such as “we deliver”, “we serve customers across Yangon” or “contact us if you need us”.
6. Crowdfunding website
A crowdfunding website exists mainly to raise funds.
For businesses, it helps people with a good idea and the technical know-how to make a product find the capital they need.
Backers get something in return, such as getting the product for less than its eventual market price, while the creator gets the chance to grow into a business.
On the social side, crowdfunding sites help people by letting others donate to causes such as people facing cancer or students struggling to pay for their education. Examples include GoFundMe and Indiegogo.
7. News and media website
This is the type of website for news organisations that have had to move to digital platforms as print sales fall.
BBC News is a well-known example. News websites earn most of their income from advertising, subscriptions and affiliate links.
A website with social media features. Like social media, it lets people share and interact freely with friends and strangers.
9. Entertainment website
These include websites for the film industry and sites with entertaining news, comedy videos and sports content.
Film sites like Netflix earn money from subscription fees, while other entertainment sites earn most of their income from ads shown on the site.
10. Educational website
Websites for universities, colleges and private schools.
In MWD’s portfolio, you can see examples such as Canadian International College (cic-myanmar.com) and AU MIT Myanmar University (www.aumitmyanmar.com).
11. Portal website
A portal lets students or employees of an organisation, school or business log in with a username and password and access all the files that apply to them. Portals are complex websites and need to be built by an experienced web agency.
For example, a government that wants to move to e-government needs a web portal, so that the whole population can get the documents they need in digital form through a national web portal.
12. Wiki website
The best-known wiki website is Wikipedia itself. Users collaborate online to write content together. Wikis are used by communities and forums, and anywhere people work together to create valuable information for others.
We hope this helps you decide what kind of website to build for yourself.
We’ll be sharing much more about websites, so do keep reading.