A portal is a door or entrance. The term online refers to the Internet and the web pages that are part of the World Wide Web. An online portal or web portal is a website that provides an entry point to a variety of information, tools, and links.
Hyperlinks may lead to related websites.
An online portal can serve a variety of purposes. Some types of portal should serve as a one stop shop for most of what certain Internet users need most. By offering a variety of the most commonly used types of information and services, and sometimes allowing customization, an online portal can save a user a lot of time. A part of the typical offer of this type of portal is the main current affairs found in many newspapers: headlines and links to important national -and perhaps local- news, weather forecasts, daily prime-time television listings, reports stocks… and sports headlines. Entertainment news, health news, dating and romance advice, a horoscope, current affairs, hyperlinks to related websites, a search engine, and sometimes free web-based email are also common.
An intranet portal is a multipurpose website that includes public and private sections, custom content, and data submission and retrieval tools.
Another type of online portal is a corporate portal, often called a corporate portal. This type of web portal is typically hosted on a corporate intranet and is the entry point to the intranet. It presents information and tools of interest and value to the company’s employees. Like other portals, it may feature search engine functionality, but with a focus on internal resources, web-based email access, employee-specific content, and in some cases, Internet access. wider, possibly only for selected sites. This type of portal can also include roles associated with a business dashboard.
An educational portal is a specially designed website that provides a number of educational services.
A vertical industry portal, or vortal, is an online portal specialized to reflect the interests and needs of members of a particular industry. Therefore, all information, whether data, news, statistics or surveys, tools, forums and other offers are linked to the target industry. Vortals can be organized by special interest groups, associations, and trade magazines. Vortals are found in areas such as agriculture, computers, energy, entertainment, business services, construction, and advertising, and may also be involved in electronic commerce.
Some online portals are used to search for advice on dating and romance.
Fitness groups can use online portals to organize group workouts.
