Question

Conduct an internet search on how to build a web portal ?

no copy subject e- portals development

Answer 1

From an e-portals development perspective, in general, and from a broad overview perspective, how a web portal is built with ideas, concepts, and logic, requirements specification, basic and simple steps:

First off, an e-portal or a web portal is a website, a portal, specifically designed, developed, and hosted collecting, bringing, and creating a large online platform, or marketplace from different sources, providing services such as emails, maps, search engines, blogs, online forums, knowledge-base or articles, product and services details or description pages, etc., showcasing all the information and services (virtually) available to the people at the same place in this case, the website and the webpages on it, neatly categorized, organized, sorted, filtered, and prioritized accordingly per certain factors, displayed in a uniform way. The web portal is both, for the Internet as well as Intranet users.

* As an idea plotting and designing perspective, requirements should be gathered, defined, and specified.
* Determine the web portal to be built and developed, if it should be a vertical web portal such as a corporate portal; or a commerce portal; knowledge portal found on company's business intranet; horizontal portal on a broad area of topics and interests; enterprise portal; or a marketspace web portal or simply a marketplace.
* All the members or team players developing a web portal should first assess their practical ideas, goals, knowing, and understanding their areas of interests to determine what exact web portal is being built and developed, foreseeing its potential if it will be personal, regional, local, or global.
* It should be determined if the web portal is personal, professional, business, commercial, or non-profit one.
* Determine and decide specifically on the functions the web portal should provide the services for such as, if it is an HR portal, communications portal, customer service portal, supplier portal, etc.
* Register the domain name from a domain registrar for the website or the web portal, example, www.example.com or www.ABCPortal.com
* Assess, choose, and decide on a web hosting service provider company to host the web portal on, its platform, services, products, tools, technologies, features, benefits, options, etc.
* Go ahead and install and start using good, easy to use, excellent, and ideal templates.
* Now, install the web portal design you chose.
* Apply the styling for the web-portal or website using appropriate tools and software.
* Go ahead and customize the design based on users' needs and your business's requirements.
* Understand all the standard features the web portal should have, features such as classifieds, chats, photo galleries, testimonials, videos, podcasts, interviews, personal profiles, blogs, reviews, etc.
* The team should identify, define, and specify the requirements of its clients, customers, or users, and provide the same.
* Hence, outline the requirements.
* Now, start creating the web portal.
* One could use a web portal wizard-driven creation software to achieve this.
* Use simple and easy drag and drop tools to build, deploy, manage, monitor, and maintain the web portal.
* Ensure the portal is compatible with multiple heterogeneous devices.
* Ensure you apply, adopt, adapt to, and use all possible safety, privacy, and security options, features, technologies, tools, software, etc., on the web portal for any kind of user or people data, money, or communications transmission, transactions, posts, publishing, etc.
* Start using the portal exploring the options, features, capabilities, functionalities, etc.
* Determine if the portal should be authenticated or non-authenticated for its users.
* Determine and decide on the web portal software to be used to build the portal, i.e., if it has to commercial or open-source software. One could use e-portal scripts such as DotNetNuke, UPortal, Liferay, etc.
* Define navigation within the website and between different webpages on the website as well as links, sections, and pages connecting to external websites.
* Define the functionalities, products, services the web-portal should provide and offer to the public, people, employees, or users. These could be map service, search engine service, news articles on a product or service, reviews, blogs, price comparisons, product or service details, descriptions, source, links, website and webpage URLs for the same, contact details for each product and service, testimonials, etc.
* The team should have database knowledge and prior experience as e-portals run on databases, hence, one should at least know MySQL database technology.
* It then requires uploading the e-portal software to your website.
* The team should design the web portal with ideas providing a maximum earning revenue in the future and in the long run if it is being used by users or people successfully, has become popular, and useful.
* It is to be noted that the look, appearance, or presentation of the web portal is not at all important, whereas one should concentrate and bring in the feel, its usability, ease of use, simplicity, performance, effectiveness, efficiency, user interactivity, and convenience factors in the portal.
* It should be determined and decided on the products or services being offered on the portal.
* Go ahead, post, upload, or publish articles, information, data, files, etc.
* You could promote your web portal at different places before you actually market the portal.
* Financial aspects such as the design and development costs are to be considered while developing a web portal throughout its development cycle.
* Once the web portal is finished develping, it should be marketed either locally, or globally, if possible in minutes, hours, or a couple of days. One could, as a recommendation, use cloud computing technology, i.e., a public cloud service provider to buy a domain, seek web portal development tools, platform, applications, libraries, etc, create, host, deploy, and even market the web portal on the cloud platform.
* It should provide multi-language support or should be available in multi languages.
* Anything, product, service available on the platform indicating its price should be made available in different currencies.