Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

Chapter 2. Portal Elements

Although portals are quite diverse, they all contain common elements. This chapter identifies the elements that make up a portal and describes how they look and work from the perspectives of users and portal architects. Not all these elements are present in every portal and some are more important than others, depending on the audience and business objectives of the portal. For instance, a portal geared toward anonymous users, requiring no authentication, would offer only limited support for secure transactions, data entry, or collaboration. A knowledge management portal might focus exclusively on searching and data integration without providing transactional capabilities.

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