Differences between Website and Portal
People keep asking me.. What is website? What is portal? Youtube is a website. No! It's a portal!
Let make clear the differences and understanding each well.
A Web Portal also known as Portal. It could be any huge website that provide any types of service. It does not tight to any specific industry but various from social, home, activities, sports, career, employment and lot more. Usually a web portal contains very sufficient information to service a specific type of industry. For example youtube (Video Portal), alibaba(Trade Portal), facebook(Social Networking Portal).
Portal charge money or always free?
Some portals do charge a small amount to enjoy the service but some are in opposite way. Maybe free for registration with basic feature but upgrade to a higher level to enjoy advance features. There is also numbers of portal that provides free service such as youtube(since the date of launching until to-date). No doubt, a new portal should provide some free or trial features to grab the new user as part of their web marketing strategies.
A free portal can make you rich?
If a portal providing a free service. How do they make money from that to pay for the system development, server, firewall security and network facilities. Yeah! It's about the advertisement. A high traffic portal can easily make millions from advertisement placement.
Website? It contains information including web pages, images, videos, and texts for a businesses or a personal profile. If you are designing a website for personal profile, it's free style! No rules, No special standard. Many western people like to create their personal profile to promote themselves. In ASIA, there is not much people doing this.
However, a business website should be a very well formal in information presentation. A business website should well arrange all the information for easy navigation to deliver the information to your audience. Everyone know, "website drive traffic and business". But How?!!! Few things to put concern: Rich content, Well structure, Comfortable in reading and Quality of presentation.
Testing and Checking€¦ Checking is very important before we publish a website on the Internet for public access. From our year's experience, a website should be compatible in all major browsers such as Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, and Chrome as well as Mac OS. There is no way we can skip this. Unless you just want to business with IE user.
In conclusion, once your website published for public access. You will need to plan for the marketing. The web marketing is the key to determine your website is success or failed. Good luck ^^
Let make clear the differences and understanding each well.
A Web Portal also known as Portal. It could be any huge website that provide any types of service. It does not tight to any specific industry but various from social, home, activities, sports, career, employment and lot more. Usually a web portal contains very sufficient information to service a specific type of industry. For example youtube (Video Portal), alibaba(Trade Portal), facebook(Social Networking Portal).
Portal charge money or always free?
Some portals do charge a small amount to enjoy the service but some are in opposite way. Maybe free for registration with basic feature but upgrade to a higher level to enjoy advance features. There is also numbers of portal that provides free service such as youtube(since the date of launching until to-date). No doubt, a new portal should provide some free or trial features to grab the new user as part of their web marketing strategies.
A free portal can make you rich?
If a portal providing a free service. How do they make money from that to pay for the system development, server, firewall security and network facilities. Yeah! It's about the advertisement. A high traffic portal can easily make millions from advertisement placement.
Website? It contains information including web pages, images, videos, and texts for a businesses or a personal profile. If you are designing a website for personal profile, it's free style! No rules, No special standard. Many western people like to create their personal profile to promote themselves. In ASIA, there is not much people doing this.
However, a business website should be a very well formal in information presentation. A business website should well arrange all the information for easy navigation to deliver the information to your audience. Everyone know, "website drive traffic and business". But How?!!! Few things to put concern: Rich content, Well structure, Comfortable in reading and Quality of presentation.
Testing and Checking€¦ Checking is very important before we publish a website on the Internet for public access. From our year's experience, a website should be compatible in all major browsers such as Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, and Chrome as well as Mac OS. There is no way we can skip this. Unless you just want to business with IE user.
In conclusion, once your website published for public access. You will need to plan for the marketing. The web marketing is the key to determine your website is success or failed. Good luck ^^
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