Non-Technical Design Web Portal
A Web Hosting Article Contributed by Frances Rhea
Design a Web Portal Without Technical Knowledge
With the implementation of PHP and MySQL, you do not have to have a lot of technical knowledge to design a Web Portal. The process is fairly easy and quite often the scripts which generate this type of site are free.
Scripts for Web Portal Design
These Web Portal design scripts provide an interface for creating categories, adding new links, checking and deleting broken links, and other tasks associated with maintaining a Web Portal design. Most of these programs require little programming knowledge.
Paid Scripts for Web Portal Design
Invision Portal available at www.aspinvision.com/iportal/ is not just a simple message board. Invision Portal is a complete Web portal design system. With their pre-built application source code, you can create and manage users, membership, content, site layouts, events, news, links, downloads, a guestbook, discussion forums, and more. The design is easily modified using style sheets and an online color editor. This system can also be used with Access database support. The price for this soltionis $74.99.
EasyDynamicPages at http://myio.net/software/products/easydynamicpages/ is $50. It is a highly customizable, full featured tool written in PHP. It has an easy to use administration interface that stores all articles and user entries in a MySQL database.
With EasyDynamicPages you can publish unlimited articles, add rich text to your articles, have three levels of access (User, Registered user and Administrator), order articles by date or alphabetically, search for articles containing a given string, have a Table of contents, an Author list, dynamically create, edit and modify as many new DynamicPages as you want, have independent customization and management with different title(topic), color, Left and/or Right blocks, and have different themes and preferences.
Free Scripts for Web Portal Design
Mambo is aimed at corporate Web sites, sites for small to medium businesses, and family or personal sites. It is available at www.mamboserver.com.
The Mambo Development Team have built a solid application framework rather than add-ons that are typically found in many Web portal solutions. This makes Mambo extremely lightweight and efficient. This solution is free and remotely hosted on their servers.
DCP-Portal SE is totally free under GPL licence and is available at www.dcp-portal.org/. You can easily setup your Web Portal by running the setup application included with DCP-Portal. You keep your portal updated with the help of content, file, link, forum, news and announcement modules. The admin panel allows you to update and manage your site easily. You can send mass e-mails and messages from the admin panel, and add activities to the members calendar. You can update your site from anywhere with a computer connected to the Internet.
mkPortal at www.mkportal.it/ is available for download when you register at their site. This is a Web portal system built on Invision Power Board 1.3 core. There are only two files that need to be modified to maintain a download system, image gallery, Blog, Topsite, Shoutbox, News, Reviews, and Chat.
