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Heavy Content Web Sites: Categories
modified from http://ijhcs.open.ac.uk/shneiderman/shneiderman-nf.html
Categorize by Size
Table 1
Web site genres with approximate sizes and examples
Web site genres with approximate sizes and examples
| Number of Web pages | Example genres | |
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| 1-10 | Personal bio Project summary |
Restaurant Review Course outline |
| 5-50 | Scientific paper Conference program |
Photo portfolio/exhibit Organization overview |
| 50-500 | Book or manual Corporate annual report |
City guide/tour Product catalog/advertisement |
| 500-50,000 | Photo library Technical reports |
Museum tour Music/film databases |
| 5,000-50,000 | University guide | Newspaper/magazine |
| 50,000 - 500,000 | Yellow pages | Airline schedule |
| >500,000 | Congressional digest | Journal abstracts |
| > 5,000,000 | Library of Congress | NASA archives |
Taxonomies of websites from many perspectives are likely. The Yahoo home page, with its thematic categories, provides a starting point, and it changes as the Web grows (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Yahoo index page showing a 14-item thematic categorization with 51 second-level links, and more than 300 other links. [http://www.yahoo.com]
A third way of categorizing websites is by goals of the originators, as interpreted by the designers (Table 2).
Table 2
Web site goals tied to typical organizations
Web site goals tied to typical organizations
| Sell products: | publishers, airlines, department stores
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| Advertise products: | NBC, Ford, IBM, Microsoft, Sony
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| Inform and announce: | universities, museums, cities
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| Provide access : | libraries, newspapers, scientific organizations
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| Offer services: | governments, public utilities
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| Create discussions: | public interest groups, magazines
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| Nurture communities: | political groups, professional associations |