Webportals provide the user diverse information in a
unified way. Think "Yahoo" or "Google". There is consistent
look and feel for different applications.
Web-portals can be easily built with free software;
marketing is the most difficult!
At the level which is usually attainable for the
individual or small business, web-portals are usually niche or corporate.
Here is how to build your own web-portal, assuming
that you are an individual or small business on a budget.
Step
Assess your goals. What kind of portal are you
building? Will it be personal (like Yahoo), regional, or a hobby portal?
Step
What features does your web-portal site need? How will
you market it? Who is your target market? What are your skills as a website
designer?
Step
Common features of web portals include chat,
classifieds, personal profiles, and photo galleries.
Step
Decide on which portal software to implement. Most
likely, you will be looking into open source web-portal scripts. Major
open-source web-portal scripts include DotNetNuke, UPortal, LifeRay, and
Dolphin Community.
Step
This can be confusing and overwhelming! The resources
list at the bottom provides some good starting points.
Step
Upload the webportal software to your website and
install it according to the script-specific directions. This is the part that
requires mysql capabilities, as web-portals run on databases.
Step
Customize the web-portal's look and feel.
Script-specific support forums can provide great advice and free templates for
the web-portal software you've chosen to implement.
Step
Market your web-portal! This may be the most time
consuming part, because website marketing is an ongoing and intensive process.
Step
Advertise your web-portal on every niche site you come
across, subscribe to traffic exchanges, and include a link to it as the
signature of your email address.
Step
If your portal includes community features such as
forums, consider getting a few friends to act like enthusiastic users or make a
few different user names to get the community participation rolling.
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