Development of an Web portal

Classification of Web portals

• Public Web portals are oriented towards all Internet users.
• Corporate portals are oriented towards the users of two categories, employees and partners, but they can also have simplified external interface for common access.

Besides Web portals can be classified into international and regional, horizontal and vertical.

• International portals are oriented towards common audience of users irrespective of their geographical position (for example, Yahoo!).
• Regional portals are concentrated on a certain geographical segment (for example, Yandex).
• Vertical Web portals are devoted to a certain topic. Subject area may be of any character: historical, educational, automobile portals became a part of our everyday life long ago.
• Horizontal Web portals embrace a lot of topics at once. For instance, information portals, portals of public and political organizations, entertaining portals enjoy great popularity.

Structure of a Web portal

Structure of a Web portal is multibranch because in contains tens, hundreds of sections, thousands of pages and a lot of links.

There is no single structure of a Web portal because each of them is highly individual. For example, structure of a business portal may include the following sections:

• description of the company, its activity, clients and partners
• news
• subscription
• topical reviews
• sectoral specificity
• reference information
• consultations
• advertising

Peculiarities of a Web portal

A Web portal is considerably different from common websites. An opportunity of a Web portal to store practically unrestricted amount of informationincluding multimedia information is realized by use of data warehouses and data marts for information storage instead of databases. Web portals need effective navigation which permits to move from one section to another quickly. Web portals often have a number of closed and a great number of open Web services.

To make a Web portal attractive for the visitors it is necessary to provide the opportunity of interactive communication (for instance, adding materials by the users). Web portals provide an opportunity of discussion and sharing experience and tips via forums, chats and comments.

Use of Web portals

Aims of Web portals use considerably depend on the needs of the company the portals are created for. Let us choose the most common tasks which a Web portal resolves: creation of an effective mass media; promotion of a brand, goods or services; formation of public opinion about a good, service, company's sphere of activity.

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