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What Does Minisite Mean?

A minisite is a particular kind of website that has a smaller footprint on the Internet and that exists for the specific purpose of marketing an individual product or service, or for achieving a particular goal using a small number of customized Web pages.

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A minisite may also be called a “microsite” or a “sitelet.”

Techopedia Explains Minisite

A typical minisite can be as simple as one page. Many minisites feature flash animations, interesting visual arrangements, large and complex logos, and/or high-resolution images that one may not find on larger sites that provide accessibility of information.

The idea behind a minisite is that, because its purpose is so defined, it does not need a lot of pages to achieve its goals. By contrast, on a larger “corporate” website, many pages such as an “About Us” page, a “Contact Us” page, product and service information pages, and related pages can be presented in a formal, unified format. The purpose of a minisite is often to allow for a much more vibrant presentation on a smaller part of a website. One way to think of this is as a visual presentation within a website, a “mini-destination” where visitors get a different experience, which is aimed at the marketing of a particular item.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.