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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 ...

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!—provid...

Web Page Navigation Web navigation  refers to the process of navigating a  network  of  information resources  in the  World Wide Web , which is organized as  hypertext  or  hypermedia . [1]  The  user interface  that is used to do so is called a  web browser . [2] A central theme in  web design  is the development of a web navigation interface that maximizes  usability . A website's overall navigational scheme includes several navigational pieces such as global, local, supplemental, and contextual navigation; all of these are vital aspects of the broad topic of web navigation. [3] Hierarchical navigation systems are vital as well since it is the primary navigation system. It allows for the user to navigate within the site using levels alone, which is often seen as restricting and requires additional navigation systems to better structure the website. [4]  The global navigation of a website, as a...