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qudsia
12-19-2006, 09:21 PM
what is web portal and how we can built it

JoeP
12-20-2006, 01:50 PM
what is web portal and how we can built it

That's kind of funny... If you don't know what it is, what makes you think you need or want it?

Anyway, I believe that when most people talk about a web portal it is basically as web site that gives you access to a variety of other websites or web content in an organized fashion. For example, you may have an organization with marketing, human resources, and engineering departments, each with their own web site / web content. The organization might also spawn a number of interest groups etc. that have their own sites. In addition to that, you may have on-line services such as configuration management, version control, time keeping, bug tracking, etc.

Rather than attempting to force every web content provider to use the same CMS (nearly impossible for things like time keeping, bug tracking, etc), but desiring to have a one-stop-shop for staff to access information, one might choose to develop a "portal". This could be developed using any web technology from hand coding to the use of a sophisticated CMS (our company settled on drupal). As long as everybody abides by the rules about not changing URLs without coordination, the portal can provide a very robust, flexible interface to the organization's information content.

That's my understanding. Hope it helps.
joe