By Thierry.Lefort
via developer.com
Published: Jun 25 2008 / 07:09
There are many, many different kinds of portals. The Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary contains five definitions for portal as a noun, ranging from a door to the entrance of a bridge and ending at "a site serving as a guide or point of entry to the World Wide Web." This article (and the portal it is published on) is only concerned with web portals, and the readers of this article (should be) only concerned with two types of portals: portals that succeed and portals that fail. No one purposely goes out to build a portal that will fail, yet it happens time and time again. To understand some of the key reasons portals fail, it will probably help to know a little bit about how portals evolved to what they are today.
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