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Types of Website Portal   W eb system that provides the functions and features to authenticate and identify the users P rovide them with an easy, intuitive, personalized and user-customizable web-interface for facilitating access to information Most portals offers these free services: Ø Search engine Ø News Ø Sports and weather Ø Web publishing Ø Reference tools such as yellow pages, maps, shopping, and e-mail and other communication services. • In organization, it is a system that provides versatile functions to catalogue or organize collections of different and multiple sources of information. • Have online communities . v Online community – a web site that joins a specific group of people with similar interests or relationships. v Examples – KMPh portal e-learning, AltaVista, AOL, Excite, GO.com, iGoogle , Lycos, MSN and Yahoo! Ø AltaVista Ø Excite Blog • A short for Weblog • M

Internet Services 1. World Wide Web (www) • The World Wide Web (WWW), or Web, consists of a worldwide collection of electronic documents . • Each electronic document on the Web is called a Web page which can contain text, graphics, animation, audio, and video. • Web pages usually have built-in connections to other documents. • Some web pages are static (fixed) ; others are dynamic (changing) . • Visitors to a static web page see all  the same content . • Visitors to a dynamic web page , can customize some or all of the viewed content such as desired stock quotes, weather for a region or ticket availability for flights . 2. e-mail What is e-mail ? • Short for electronic mail • The transmission of messages and files via a computer network q C onsist of simple text or can contain attachments, such as documents, graphics, or audio/video clips q q Some Web sites — such as Google and Yahoo!—provide fr