These websites provide basic online functionality. About Us, Services, Photo Gallery, Contact Us are all typical informational site pages. If a website doesn’t sell a product online or require user registration, it generally falls into the informational website category.
The main purpose of commerce websites are to sell products or services by processing payments online through the company’s website or an online payment gateway service. Commerce sites typically require a product database and sales management tools to be built into the website. This can make commerce websites some of the more expensive ones to produce.
Social websites focus on creating an online community through user registration. These sites usually have a communal area such as a forum, along with a user profile database.