Portal is ... What is an Internet portal?

With the development of the World Wide Web, new kinds of sites also enter into circulation. Creators maximize the effectiveness of resources to attract more users. One of them are Internet portals. What are these sites and what are they used for?

Description

An Internet portal is a site that hosts a large number of links to third-party resources and sites of the worldwide Internet. On it you can find interesting information and easily go to the link where you need it.

The Internet portal is a convenient resource that serves as a kind of compass on the Web. It consists not only of navigation. Here, also unique content is posted (news from around the world, stock reports, various reviews) and services with services (mail, weather, announcements, games, forums) work.

Types

Services provided by the portal, depend on the direction of the site owners, their interests and opportunities. The purpose of this or that service is to satisfy the needs of users and attract new ones. In this regard, they have units.

Horizontal

Universal portals. This is a type of resource that is designed for a large audience. Here is laid out the most fresh and diverse content. Service services are also selected for consumers, the choice is great. Such portals are adjusted for search engines.

Vertical

Niche portals. These are specialized services aimed at a thematic niche of interaction or a specific task. It can be entertaining, teaching, cognitive, technical, financial and even religious portals. Particularly common are regional resources (city, region, district). Here groups of people are formed, united by any direction, which can communicate in chats or on forums.

Varieties

There are also isolated species that can be referred to behind the scenes as vertical:

• Information portals are services that provide users with real-time information. Here are laid out the data on certain areas - medicine, the media, science, laws and law, historical events.

• State electronic portals are the resources of municipal institutions. Here, enterprises and government agencies publish news in the field of their activities. The portals of the structures are gaining popularity, where you can apply for documents or make inquiries on issues.
• Corporate portals are sites that are used by employees of the same company. Here is information of the company, discussion of working issues. To portals of this type has access only a certain circle of persons.
• Mobile portal. What it is? These are Web sites designed primarily for information retrieval. That is, it navigates through the mobile resources of the Internet. Links to information and websites are provided. Also, reference services in the main areas are developed here. Such portals are popular both in corporate companies and among ordinary users.

Differences from sites

There are also mixed Internet portals and general-purpose resources. They are guided by a wider mass of people and combine different functions.

What, in fact, is the difference between a simple website and an Internet portal? Is it possible to associate them with each other if they have a voluminous structure and place a sufficient number of direct links to other resources?

Site - documents and materials of an individual or legal entity that are united in the Internet on one address (domain). There are a lot of sites.

1. Internet-shop - a site with a description of all the goods of the store, indicating their cost. Such a site provides services for organizing a trading process for a point of sale. Here you can order any product by viewing the multi-page directory.
2. Game services are sites where gamers from around the world spend their time. Online games are very popular at the moment, they unite people by interests from different corners of the planet.
3. Promotion sites - a small site about a specific event, a meeting, an exclusive product, a contest, a lottery. Such sites do not exist for long, only for the time of this event or advertising.
4. Corporate site - catalog of services and goods of a certain company, assortment of a company, shares, prices.
5. Business card is the site of the company, the company where all the information about the owners, the history of creation is posted, the type of the activity performed, the job, the services, contacts for communication, legal acts are indicated.
6. Forums and chat rooms are sites where different topics are raised, events or people simply communicate. On forums, a more global discussion of topics broken down by interests. In chats there is a simple communication between people in real time.
7. A blog is a personal resource of a private person or company. The author is engaged in filling the content available to all users. As a rule, blogs post their own essays relating to the direction of the author's activities. You can also leave comments here if the author does not block this function.

It turns out that a website is a specialized resource aimed at reviewing its activities or products. Some issues are discussed here, there is no search engine, and links are also aimed at narrow topics. The task of such a resource is to attract the user, advertising his services.

Conclusion

The Internet portal is aimed at expanding the profile, it combines what is viewed on several regular sites. It has a local search engine, resources and services for performing various operations, entertainment, a lot of news on all topics. A portal is a guide that helps you to find individual sites (profile, specialized, corporate).

Of course, the general structure of the structure of the site and the Internet portal is similar. They provide information and services. But the ways of reporting these data are different for them, which makes them different in purpose by resources.