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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. The following table lists out a few-

Credit Card Processing	E-commerce or online purchase of products or services.

Chat	This allows users to chat online.

Calendar	Show tour events or let users post events.

Search	Keyword or phrase search of the whole site.

Classified Ads	Allow users or members to post their own classified ads.

Rotate Banner Ads	This component displays ads for a specified time on each page.

Application Form	Visitors can complete an application and send it.

Shopping Cart	Select a product online and drop it in a cart for purchase.

Quiz	Use it for an online course or fun.

Survey And Poll	Get helpful information about visitors.

Links	Allow visitors to add their favorite links.

Administering Your Portal

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 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

Turnkey Portal Package

Here is a quick and easy way to get your online community up and running. You describe what you want to accomplish and we can create a simple portal containing the following:

HomePage	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.

Link	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, Google, Yahoo & others.

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

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

Simple Portal Plug-In Package

Guest Book	Here your visitors can post their names 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.