Nowadays Web Portals are the one of the loved launching vehicle to overall growth of a Firm. A user gains an access of driving broad array of resources, while a website is a destination in itself.
Portals and websites are distinct entities which often overlap and complement each other to enhance the functionalities. A web portal and website should be strongly linked together, but they should not replace each other.
There is a very hair line boundary where a Website Grows to Portal.
- Website represents an organization to outside world, but a portal provides multiple user roles with a common access point.
- A website is also a portal, if it broadcast information from different independent resources, thus offering a public service function to visitors.
Web Portal
Web portal ("portal" means "doorway" or "entrance") refers to a website or service that offers a broad array of resources and services such as email, forums, search engines, customer manage and online shopping malls.
- It’s an organized gateway that helps to configure the access to information found on the internet.
- Web portal applications offers consistent look and feel with access control &procedures for multiple applications and databases.
Websites
A website refers to a location on the internet and a collection of webpages, images, videos which are addressed relative to a common Uniform Resource Location (URL).
- It’s nothing but a domain name hosted on a server which is accessible via a network called internet or private local area network.
- Owning a website becomes an essential part for any businesses and company with no web presence is just running the risk of losing the business opportunities.