What is an online portal?
The portal is a door or entrance. The term online refers to the Internet and websites that are part of the World Wide Web. The online portal or web portal is a website that provides an input point for a number of information, tools and links.
Online portal can serve different purposes. Some types of online portal are intended to serve as a one -time store for most of what some Internet users would need most. By offering a number of most commonly used types of information and services - and sometimes allowing personalization - the online portal can save a lot of time. One part of the typical offers for this type of online portal is the best current events found in many newspapers: subtitles and links to important national - and possibly local - news, weather forecasts, daily TV, stock market reports and sports headlines. Also typical are entertainment reports, health reports, dating and Roma's tips, horoscope, trend topics, hypertext links to related weby, search engine and sometimes free, web e-mail.
Another type of online portal is the company portal, often called business portal . This type of web portal is generally hosted on the company intranet and is an entrance point of the intranet. Company employees contain information and tools of interest and value. Like other online portals, it may include search engine features, but focus on internal assets, access to web e-mail, content specifically for employees, and in some cases wider Internet access, probably only for selected sites. This type of online portal may also include features that are associated with a trading panel.
The vertical industrial portal, or Vortal, is an online portal that is specialized in the reflecting of the interests and needs of members of a particular name. All information - whether data, messages, statistics or research, tools, forums and other offers are connectedwith the target industry. Vortals can be hosted by special interest groups, associations and business magazines. Vortals are found in fields such as agriculture, computers, energy, entertainment, business services, construction and advertising, and can also be involved in electronic trading.