A Web portal is a gateway to a wide range of internet sevices, such as e-mail, search engines, e-commerce, etc. A web portal is also a type of website but with a huge range of offerings. Moreover, unlike a website, it does not contain information on any topic. Instead, it suggests related web pages to the user to find the desired information and links to the related sites. Nowadays, most of the search engines are acting as webportals to present information from diverse sources in a unified way like yahoo,MNS,etc.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WEBSITE AND WEB PORTALThe web portal and website can be differentiated on the basis of the following points:
| FEATURES | WEB PORTAL | WEBSITE |
|---|---|---|
| Defination | A web is a gate way to a wide range of internet sevices | A web is a collect of related web pages containing images, videos, or other digital media set under the same domain name. |
| Authentication | It requires authentication measures likelogin and provides information accordingly.For example, gmail.com and rediffmail.com | No authentication is required. Any one can see the content. For example, www.cbseacademic.in and www.ncert.nic.in |
| Personalisation | It provides focussed and personalised information. | A website provides extensive content to fullfill the needs of a wide range of users. A user can access and use the provided information as per his desire. |
| Customisation | A user can select and organise the content he wants to access. | The content is searchable, but not customisable. |
| Linkage | It is generally linked to various websites that provide the relevant web services. | It is generally linked to its own web pages. |
| Examples | University or Company website, search engines. | https://kips.in/ https://aktu.ac.in/,https://upsee.nic.in/ |
To conclude, we can say that a web portal is loaded with a multitude of features, and the website is just information-centric.
WEB PAGEA web page is a digital page which may contain text, hyper link, videos, audio, image, table etc.It is commonly written using HTML (Hyper text Markup Language) and is stored on a web server. Each web page is identified by a unique web address called Uniform Resource Locator (URL).
COMPONENTS OF A WEBPAGEAlthough anatomy of one web page may differ with that of another as there are multiple ways in which a web page can be designed, however, there are some common elements which every web page contains.
Let us discuss this basic element with the image of a web page given on the next page