Meaning of Web Portal:
Web Portal is special kind of website that is made to bring information from the diverse sources in a uniform way. Normally the word portal is meant by any entrance or door. In the context of Internet, Web Portal is also one type of entrance to digitality. Each and every information source gets its own space or area over the Web Page. Content of the portal is mostly dependent upon the users and purpose of the Web Portal. Here users can also determine which content should be added and which should be deleted but these all are dependent upon a user's role. There are different types of functionalities which are provided by a Web Portal:
Functionalities Provided By Web Portal:
- User can search any content within the Web Portal, for this Web Portal contains search engine API (Application Programming Interface).
- Web Portal also provides different types of services like E-mails, news, stock quotes, information from database and also entertainment content.
- Through Web Portal, organization can maintain consistency of look and feel.
- Users can get different information from single place rather than jumping over different URLs.
Examples of Web Portals:
In olden days, the Web Portals were online services such as AOL, Excite, Netvibes, iGoogle, MSN, Naver, Lycos, Rediff etc. Now a days, most of the olden search engines have transformed themselves as Web Portal to keep large audience.
Classification of Web Portals:
Normally any Web Portal is classified into two categories:
- Horizontal Web Portal
- Vertical Web Portal
- Horizontal Web Portal provides a big platform to various companies of the same economic sector or to the same type of manufacturers or distributors. Horizontal Web Portal provides a very large areas.
- Vertical Web Portals are that portal which focus on a specific functional areas. Vertical Portal is also known as "Vortal". Some Vertical Portals are also known as VIPs (Vertical Information Portals). Vertical Portals provide news, e-commerce capabilities etc. Dynamic Multimedia Applications (Video posting, Blogging, Social media etc.)are also the part of the Vertical Portals.
Types of Web Portals:
Different types of Web Portals are available:
- Personal Portals
- Government Web Portals
- Cultural Portals
- Corporate Web Portals
- Stock Portals
- Search Portals
- Property Search Portals etc..
- Personal Web Portal is a web page of a websites which includes HTML and Javascript. Personal Web Portal can be run of different Web Browsers. Personal Web Portal provide different pathways to other contents.
- In 1990s, many Government had started to created their Web Portals for their citizens or for the specific audience.
- As Intranet Technology has grown, the web masters started to face challenges like user management and content management. So many companies started to provide tools to help web masters to manages their data and users. So it came out as Corporate Web Portals.
- Cultural Portals are based around specific national or regional groupings of institutions.
- Stock Portal is also known as Stock Share Portal or Stock Market Portal or Stock Exchange Portal. Such Web Portal is a web application which provides different information related to stock market i.e. latest price, latest news, announcements and reports also.
- Search Portal aggregates results of different search engines into single webpage.
- Property Web Portal aggregate result or information about properties for sale by real estate agents.
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