With the development of the World Wide Web, new types of sites are also in circulation. Creators maximize the effectiveness of resources to attract more users. One of them are online 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 on the world wide Internet. On it you can find the information of interest and easily follow the link to where you need.
An Internet portal is a convenient resource that serves as a kind of compass on the Web. It consists not only of navigation. Here, unique content is also laid out (news from around the world, stock summaries, various reviews) and services with services (mail, weather, announcements, games, forums) work.
Types
The services that the portal provides depend on the activities of the site owners, their interests and capabilities. The purpose of a service is to meet 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 wide audience. Here is the latest and most diverse content. Services are also selected for consumers, the choice is large. Such portals adapt to search engines.
Vertical
Niche portals. These are specialized services aimed at a thematic niche of interaction or a specific task. It can be entertaining, educational, cognitive, technical, financial and even religious portals. Regional resources (city, region, district) are especially common. Here groups of people are formed, united by any direction, who can communicate in chat rooms or on forums.
Varieties
There are also separate species that can be tacitly classified as vertical:
- Information portals are services that provide users with real-time information. Here, the data are laid out in certain areas - medicine, the media, science, laws and rights, historical events.
- State electronic portals are the resources of municipal institutions. Here, enterprises and government agencies publish news in the field of their activities. Portals of structures are gaining popularity, where you can apply for paperwork or make inquiries on issues.
- Corporate portals are sites that are used by employees of one company. Here is the company's information, discussion of working issues. Portals of this type have access only to a certain circle of persons.
- Mobile portal. What it is? These are websites designed primarily to search for information. That is, it navigates the mobile resources of the Internet. Links to information and relevant sites are provided . Help services in the main areas are also 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 focus on a wider mass of people and combine various functions.
What, then, is the difference between a simple site and an Internet portal? Is it possible to associate them with each other if they have a three-dimensional structure and place a sufficient number of direct links to other resources?
Site - documents and materials of an individual or legal entity, which are combined on the Internet at one address (domain). There are a huge number of sites.
- Online store - a site with a description of all the products of the store, indicating their cost. Such a site provides services for the organization of the trading process for the outlet. Here you can order any product by viewing the multi-page catalog.
- Game services are sites where gamers from all over the world spend their time. Online games are very popular at the moment, they unite people of interest from different parts of the world.
- Promotion sites - a small site about a specific event, meeting, exclusive product, competition, lottery. Such sites do not exist for long, only at the time of this event or advertisement.
- Corporate site - a catalog of services and products of a particular company, the range of companies, stocks, prices.
- Business card - the site of the company, the company, which contains all the information about the owners, creation history, the type of activity performed, vacancies, services, contacts for communication, legal acts.
- Forums and chats are sites where various topics, events, or people just talk. The forums are more global discussion of topics, broken down by interests. In chat rooms, simple communication between people in real time occurs.
- A blog is a personal resource of a private individual or company. The author is filling out content that is accessible to all users. As a rule, blogs post their own essays related to the direction of the author. You can also leave comments here if the author does not block this feature.
It turns out that a website is a specialized resource aimed at reviewing its activities or goods. Certain issues are discussed here, there is no search engine, and links are also aimed at narrow topics. The objective of such a resource is to attract the user by advertising his services to him.
Conclusion
The Internet portal is aimed at expanding the profile, it combines what is reviewed on several ordinary sites. It has a local search engine, resources and services for various operations, entertainment, a lot of news on all topics. The portal is a guide that helps you find individual sites (specialized, specialized, corporate).
Of course, the general structure of the site and the Internet portal are similar. They provide information and services. But here they have different ways of conveying this data, which makes them different resources for their intended purpose.