ONLINE SERVICES

Online services are sites that provide all kinds of services, which greatly facilitates the work and can significantly save time.

With the help of such sites on the Internet, you can do anything: conduct money transactions, communicate, search, store, edit, send and publish information, and much more.

Despite the variety of sites and services that they provide, online services can be divided into the following main groups, depending on their subject and purpose:

• Information retrieval. These resources are designed to find the necessary information. These include not only search databases, but also online libraries with books, music or films, various catalogs and directories, as well as online translators.
• Social. This group includes all kinds of social networks, online communicators, as well as electronic mail services. Using these services, you can not only communicate with people, regardless of their location, but also conduct business correspondence, send files and much more.

• Shopping services. These resources are intended for the purchase of things or ordering services. This category includes not only online stores, but also services for ordering and booking tickets (from theater to railway), hotels and much more.
• Banking services. Using these resources, you can pay for a purchase or service, for example, an order in an online store, or even pay for utilities, without the need for a personal visit to the bank.
• Road services make it possible to quickly lay a route, regardless of the method of movement, to assess traffic congestion on the roads, to obtain information about the duration of the trip, and the like.

Also, online services are both paid and free. On a paid basis, after passing the registration procedure and paying for membership, the user gets access to the services that this service provides. It can be like access to watching movies online in high quality, the ability to download books, and much more.

Free resources offer their services for free and often do not even require registration. However, the quality of these services is often much lower than in paid services.

When developing an online service, the main attention is paid to its interface, since it should be intuitive to users, and also quickly load from any device. For example, users often use road services while on the go and download them on smartphones or tablets.

Developing your own online service may be of interest to representatives of any field. Also, they can be both completely independent units and complement the main site of the company. For example, on a corporate website you can place a page with an online service for ordering a service or purchasing products that this company offers.