why not website?

Web Page is what I meant. It's in the green + menu right below journal article (only in standalone - in Zotero for FF you're supposed to directly create a webpage item as a new item from the current page.)

huh - it's up there for me (where you have blogpost etc), but it looks like that's an adaptive menu. You'll have to manually change the item type then (or use right-click --> Create Zotero snapshot from a browser with connector installed).
As for the difference between website and page - yes, they're different, but I don't think they are ever cited differently, which means that one item type is enough for both (remember that bibliographic distinction is the main criterium for different item types - if it were for me (and maybe Zotero's devs in retrospect), item types such as blog post wouldn't exist, either.)

"How can it be an adaptive menu in Zotero standalone?"
I'm not sure I understand the question. I assume the five item types right below the green cross adapt automatically to usage patterns. Those types of auto-adaptive menus are common. I can't say 100% that's the case, but it's the only reason I can see why they'd look different on your and my version of standalone.

"I think Zotero is not only for citing."
absolutely, but the number of item types that are potentially useful for _someone_ is limit-less (an art historians may want image, sculpture, drawing, painting, print, installation; a musicologist opera, orchestral work, solo work etc.; a political scientist UN-resolution, EU directive, WTO treaty etc. There would be no end). Hence we restrict item types to those bibliographically necessary and suggest tags and collections to order and structure libraries. As you may know, more visual, color-coded tags (along the lines of gmail) will be in Zotero 3.5.

beogl - I agree that's odd for webpage. I was surprised to see it show up at all - all other entries should appear under the more options list so you can still get to them - it just takes a tiny bit longer.

web page doesn't appear under 'more' in my case in standalone 3.0.2. Why is that? How am I supposed to add a web page item in standalone?

I find it very confusing that not all types are listed in the New Item drop-down in Standalone. What is the reason for not having all types in this list?

You mean "that most people using it ..."?

In that case I disagree. It is just confusing here. It does not learn me anything that it is missing since it rather prevents me from knowning that there is such a type as "web page" at all.

As a new user, I was confused that "Web Page" was not available as an Item Type. I determined what the available item types were by clicking the green button, and then More. I assumed that to be a complete, alphabetically sorted, list of the Item Types available to me. When I was manually moving items over into my new Zotero Tool, it wasn't a choice. Odd.

And then, in the course of some regular work, at a web page (in Chrome), I right click, save snapshot. Hmmm, now I go over to Zotero and see THAT item has a Web Page Item type. Strange.

Then I find that I can change existing items from whatever they are, to a Web Page, I just can't manually create a new item of that type. It seems odd.

It then made me wonder what OTHER types of Items are only available via some other means? This green button is broken? Do I have a bad install? Is it an error in the program? Am I confused? Let me spend some time looking around and investigating.

So...please just add ALL of the available Item Types to the green button "more" list. It will save confusion, time, and dismay.

@devs: I think that a first-run guidance panel would be useful. It would appear when clicking on the "More" button.
[by the way, those guidance panels are a very good idea but they should appear more than once - a "don't show again" button wouldn't transform them into the annoying MS-Word assistant "Clippy" - e.g. the quick format guidance panel is hard to remember if you see it only once.]

@ademoor - devs don't assume they know best. The current behavior was introduced as a reaction to frequent misunderstandings by users.
It's you guys who assume that your experience represents all users.

I have to agree with @ademoor. I had to search to find out why there was no webpage type in the drop down menu. It does not seem to be an intuitive solution.

I just use "Save Zotero snapshot from current page" and then delete the snapshot from Zotero. A little bit inconvinient, of course... ;-)

I understand the intention to encourage users to create web page items in the most efficient way possible, but I still think it would be useful if the "add item" (green plus sign) menu had all the item types for two reasons:

1) I am building a library from references cited previously in our research center's publications over the past 10 years, and this has been frustrating for me because sometimes I need to manually enter a web page that no longer exists, which means I can't take a snapshot with the chrome extension or with Firefox.

2) I really like Zotero and am trying to "sell" Zotero to my colleagues as a more user-friendly citation manager than Refman, our previous citation manager. I am now training the rest of the staff to use Zotero, and although I have showed everyone efficient ways to enter references (straight from Firefox/chrome), some people prefer to enter them in manually, for whatever reason, and several people have approached me with the issue. I have to tell them to add a reference of any type with the "add item" green plus-sign button, and then right-click on the "item type" field and select web page, because web page shows up in that menu. It's these quirks that make people feel overwhelmed and shy away from the new technology.

At least for the way I and other people in my office use Zotero, it would be less confusing to have all item type menus have all of the item types, including web page. Yes, the way it is could force users to figure out how to use Zotero more efficiently, but I also feel like more options and consistency in the menus couldn't hurt, right?

This is obviously only a minor annoyance, and I came here initially to alert you, since I assumed it was not intentional, but when I found this discussion, I figured I would add my two-cents.

tobidelbruck: Your argument is that we should add a menu item to prevent you from wasting 30 minutes trying to figure out why it wasn't there so that instead you could waste many minutes a day for days, months, or years, until you realized that there was actually a better, one-click way to add webpages?