A web portal provides personalized capabilities and pathways to content from various sources for visitors. It uses different applications and hardware to share collaboration in workplaces across multiple platforms like PCs, PDAs and phones. Examples include Yahoo, MSN and NetCenter. A website is a collection of web pages within a domain that users can access via HTTP to display in their browser. Portals find and consolidate information for users in a standard framework, while websites disperse information that requires learning browsing capabilities.

2. What is Portal
• A web portal is a site on the world wide web that
typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors
providing a pathway to other content. It is designed to
use distributed applications, different numbers and
types of middleware and hardware to provide services
from a number of different sources.
• In addition, business portals are also designed to share
collaboration in workplaces .
• A further business-driven requirements of portals is that
the content be able to work on multiple platforms such
as personal computers, personal digital assistant
(PDAs),and cell phones.
• Examples :Yahoo, MSN,NetCenter

3. What is Website
• A website is a collection of web pages,
typically common to a particular domain
name or sub domain on the world wide web
on the internet.
• A webpage is a document, typically written in
HTML, that is almost always accessible via
HTTP, a protocol that transfers information
from the websites server to display in users
web browser.

4. Difference between Portal and
Website
1
• A portal finds the information for the user.
• In website the user has to search for it.
2
• A portal displays all the contents in one place.
• In website the information is usually dispersed.
3
• A portal uses consistent framework for presenting the
information in a standard way.
• On the other hand, there is a learning curve for users
of typical website to get familiar with all browsing
capabilities.

5. The end
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