A Hobby
Website
Building a hobby website is probably the easiest site to create
since you are entirely your own person when it comes to the choice of
information you choose to present, and how you choose to do so.
A hobby website is generally a fun project based on a subject with
which you are familiar. Popular subjects covered include Ancestry, Collecting,
Gardening, Military Figures, Model Making, Stained Glass Making, Metal
Detecting and Arts & Crafts or any other hobby you can think of.
Building a hobby website is as fun as you want to make it.
Since it is entirely your own project, you are free to use any style,
layout or template you choose. It can be entirely text based, incorporate
graphics and text, or if you are familiar with design and graphics software,
it can be predominantly graphics based. The choice is yours to make!
The
Information Website
Building an Information website is much more involved than that
of the hobby site and must be geared specifically towards the target
audience.
For example, a website aimed at absolute beginners to HTML must make
certain that the information is presented in an easily understood, yet
concise manner. It must also have a 'look and feel' appropriate to
the topic.
An information based website is different to a hobby site in that
it usually covers much more ground and many more subjects than the more
singular-subject hobby site. Depending on the site itself, it may carry
advertising.
Depending on the nature of the material, an information website may
offer considerable scope for expansion, both of the material and information
included, and the ability to generate revenues from suitable advertising.
Planning beforehand is essential if the site is intended to generate
any revenue.
The
Sales Website
Selling on the internet is growing at a massive rate as people
become more familiar with the technologies involved and more comfortable
with known internet brands such as Amazon, PayPal, Kelkoo, etc.
If you have a particular product or products to sell, for example, hand-made
shoes, a self-published book or you build model sports cars; then the
internet literally opens up a worldwide marketplace.
With time, hard work and patience, it is possible to build
a website which is open for business 24 hours a day and to then use
the internet to sell your products.
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