What is the purpose of a website ?

Websites in general

Different kinds of websites have different purposes depending on who the intended audience is.
Some websites are geared towards selling products and other are just purely for entertainment. There are variety of websites, the most common websites are selling websites for clothing or supermarkets. However, music/artist webpages are also quite common to have.

Examples of selling websites may be -

Office

Examples of entertainment -

Rihanna's website

You can see that on the selling site there is a lot more well set out as they're all made to keep customers looking so they're purchase products and contribute money to the company where as the Rihanna website which is for entertainment and to give her fans information, they're not so worried about the layout of the website as it is more there to feed information to fans and just keep them updated.

Make money with a website
A site that there to make money from your website and this will be done by the visitors to pay for the items or a shopping cart where people can purchase things. Security things will be there to protect the purchasers information, for the website to have people repeat purchase or want to continue using the site then it needs to give a professional appearance.

Websites built to share information

This is a website there to share information and this might not need as many features as a site that is there to sell products. Therefore a website to advertise an artist's page of their concerts etc is going to cost far less to create than a website put in place to sell clothes would need due to it needing far less features etc. The websites are put in place to give customers or fans information on upcoming things, this is there so that things can be displayed and information can be uploaded and changed frequently.

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