User:Gifford Watkins
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| Gifford B. Watkins, B.Sc., M.A., M.Div. | |
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| Born | July 1, 1969 |
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| Occupation | Founder and CEO AtlanticWebfitters |
My name is Gifford Watkins...
I run a web portal software company in Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia, Canada
[edit] What is a web portal you ask?
- Think of a "portal" as a building; except it's online. The database is the foundation, the first floor is for registered visitors, the rest of the floors are accessible to those who have permission. The top floor is reserved for administration.
- If your client is seeking a "Portal Server", it's best to find out how many people will be inhabiting the building. From there you can determine the type of foundation (database) that will drive all the processes (paperwork).
- If the Portal is accessible using only a webbrowser, the company could save millions of dollars because they would never need client/server software... just browsers.
- I've used the Portal is a House speech many times
[edit] Four Pillars of a web portal CMS
Pages
Modules
Security Roles
Users
Consider a regular website to be a brochure, a one way delivery system only the printer can change; contrast this to a Content Management System, a virtual building. It has a foundation (the database), walls inside(intranet), walls outside(internet), intercom system(email) and houses dozens of appliances/modules(blogs, wikis, forums, calendars, contacts, the list is endless). The absolute beauty of a Content Management System, is that it is specifically built for people without programming skills.
My personal portal is IQ Portals
[edit] Intel Case Studies (PDF Download)
author: Jennifer Lavoie
title: Portals Powered By Intel Open Companies For Business
publisher: Intel Corporation
date: 2008-03-24
Download
accessdate = 2008-03-21
