Outsourcing Portal Software Development and Vortal Development
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What are Portals and Vortals?
Many of the big well known sites are considered portals. They are gateways into the internet for many users. A Portal attracts a broad (horizontal) range of users whereas Vortals appeal to a more narrowed (vertical) audience.

Vortals focus on a group of people with a specific passion or interest. They are sometimes called 'online communities' or ' vertical portals.' If you are interested in horses, for example, go to horsenet.com. Here you can chat with others interested in horses. You can also buy horse-related products and books and find information about horses. We can build your Portal, Vortal or Community. This Portal development may include adding several features or components that are not normally found on a typical site. For example, you may need a discussion forum so that your visitors can share ideas or experiences. Creating this forum requires deciding which forum software to use and then installing it on the server. There are many other components or modules you may wish to add to your Portal / Vortal.

Installation of the script component is only the first step. It takes some time to learn how to administer it. For example, in the case of discussion forums, setting up the topics and discussion areas is involved. After setup, ongoing control over the discussion is needed. Many people are surprised that a good Portal is an ongoing process. Once it is designed, developed and published, the Portal then needs visitors. This requires site promotion. Also the site will become obsolete and stagnant unless it is updated and maintained.

COMPONENTS OF PORTAL DEVELOPMENT

• Concept, design and text development
  
• Site development
  
• Installation of components: CGI/ Perl scripts
  
• Graphic and animation development
  
• Banner ad creation
  
• Updating/ improving content

Home Page - including 3 extra pages.

Form - 1 feedback form which will be e-mailed to you each time someone fills it in.

Discussion Forum - Here your visitors can post questions and comments. This is the heart of the community.

Links - This allows visitors to add links to your site. It is similar to Yahoo! or other search engines.

Survey - Use this to get customer feedback while at the same time provide spontaneous way to view compiled results.

Poll - Many people like to know the opinion of others.

Banner Ads - Advertise your products or receive income from others. We will create two banners ads for you.

Search - Allow your visitors to search your site for words.

Site Promotion - We will promote your site, otherwise you may have a beautiful site with no visitors. We will get your site listed on some of the major search engines like Alta Vista, Looksmart, Excite, Lycos and others.

Site Statistics - We will set you up so that you can easily monitor the number of visitors coming to your portal.

Handbook - These instructions will help you to keep your site going after we have created it.

SIMPLE VORTAL PLUG-IN PACKAGE

We will plug these features into your existing site. We call this the vortal plug-in because it is a simple inexpensive way to start a vortal.

Guest Book - Here your visitors can post their name and comments.

Survey - Get customer feedback

Search - Allow your visitors to search your site for words.

Form - Your visitors can complete a form and submit it to you

Outsource your portal or vortal development to Stylus
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