Web Portal: A New Era In Web Dvelopment Web development is booming as one of the highly profitable business service; a well designed and maintained website is the principal tool of any open source development. Web portal is the specially designed web page in a website that brings unified information from different sources. Usually each information source gets the dedicated area on the web page to display information; user can also configure particular one portal to display. Variants of portals include mash up and intranet “dashboards” for executive and managers. The content displayed in a uniform way more or less depends on intended user or purpose. Very often the design emphasizes on certain metaphor to configure and customize the content presentation. User determines the content to be added or to be deleted from the portal configuration. A portal may use an application programming interface permitting users to search intranet to extranet restricting domains which may be searched. Apart from a general search engine a web portal offers other features or services like emails, news and information from database etc. some of public web portals are iGoogle, MSN, AOL, Excite, Indiatimes, Yahoo!, Sify or Rediff. Sometimes web portals are classified as vertical or horizontal. Horizontal platform is used for those companies or manufacturers who belong from the same economic sectors. Vertical portals are specialized entry points to the niche of any specific industry or market or even subject area. Some vertical portals known as vertical information portals provide news, content or digital publications. Types of portals can varied from personal, news, government, cultural, corporate to stock, search or tender portal. Some benefits of the web portal are: • Applications that are browser based easily merged with the business process effectively. • Increasing the return on investment it saves administration communication and other costs. • Huge scopes to make changes depending on the requirement. • It manages product assessment, collaboration and markets the products. • It is logical and easy to manage information. Web portals are used by several organizations to circularize information for providing services to their users. To co-operate with the various users as per their different requirements, numerous types of information and services available to all users that would be grouped together to present in web as per the operational functions’ nature. That means the information and services are based on groups according to the service providing departments; user should have some idea about information type or services provided.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:09:20 +0000
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