2007-02-01 17:04:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
The term 'portal' is used to describe a website that acts as an entry point or gateway to an array of services or resources.
Obviously all sites can do this to some degree, but typically a portal will have a wide range of resources, usually including a search facility, directory of other sites, news, e-mail etc. portals can be general (eg Yahoo) or be specific to a particular industry, occupation or field of interest.
2007-02-01 17:23:52 · answer #1 · answered by prity 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, both Websites and Web Portals offer the same service. As previously explained a Web Portal is just a type of Website.
For another definition of Web Portals compared to Websites;-
A Website is all the pages, images and files contained under a domain name - such as www.happy-online.co.uk
A Web Portal is a type of Website. A Web Portal acts as a gateway to the internet. (A typical dictionary definition of the word portal would be - a doorway or a grand entrance.)
Take the website www.yahoo.com, this is a website, all the pages under the domain www.yahoo.com combine to make the website. However, Yahoo is often referred to as a Web Portal, if you have a look at the Yahoo Website you can see why it has often been called a Portal. The Website acts as a doorway (Portal) to the Internet, from the website you can search the web, go shopping, take part in auctions, read your email etc.
2007-02-01 17:47:58 · answer #2 · answered by ashokphil 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-06-09 18:22:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Web site: A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages. It contains info about the particular company which as hosted it.
For eg: NDTV.com, will contain info about latest news, other program info etc; all company sites comes under this.
Web portal: Web portal is also a website that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as e-mail, forums, search engines, and on-line shopping malls etc; etc;
Eg: Consider yahoo - you have yahoo mail, answers, chat, online shopping and so many things .. news etc; so it is something that offers various services which a company website may not offer.
2007-02-01 17:28:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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A web site is a page in the internet which provides to acces to data and informations.
A Web Portal is a subset of the website, which acts as a way or path to enter a particular domain you would like to enter.
Just see the meaning of the word "Portal". It means "door" or "gateway" or "Entrance".
A Web portal is nothing special. Its is just a website, but is used as a entry point.
For eg. you can create your own page and name your home page as your web portal.
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2007-02-01 17:50:29 · answer #5 · answered by V@su Maniram 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a portal is generally considered as a launching pad to other sites, Yahoo! and Google are considered *protals* where as somthing like foxnews.com or cnn.com or ur personal website somewhere or a company website r just that websites.
2007-02-01 17:17:34 · answer #6 · answered by Ody 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 06:58:35 · answer #7 · answered by lizzie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get much info on google search.But any how i am giving you some urls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_portal
http://campustechnology.com/techtalks/events/000120portal.asp
2007-02-01 18:52:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Corporate jackass speak.
2007-02-01 17:12:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋