Open Source Web Portal Software
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 Click For a Bigger Picture. "A web portal is a site that provides a single function via a web page or site. Web portals often function as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web. Portals present information from diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the search engine standard, web portals offer other services such as e-mail, news, stock prices, infotainment, and other features. Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether. An example of a web portal is Yahoo!." Web Portals (or CMS Portals) is a kind of Content Management Systems (CMS) that provide personalized capabilities to their visitors. With portal CMS a webmaster can create community-based portals with an automated web site allowing users and editors to post new items, comment articles, discuss different topics, etc. Some CMS are better suitable for to create web portals than others. That doesn't mean that they can not be used as more regular CMS for developing and updating your web site. It just means that it is easier to create online communities with these systems. These CMS portals can be extended with plugins, modules, hacks, etc. You can also change the look and feel with a lot of skins/themes, both free one's and commercial skins/themes. There is also a variety of languages supported if you don't use English. With many of these systems you can also integrate other software, e.g. galleries, wikis, etc. GeeklogGeeklog is a PHP/MySQL based application for managing dynamic web content. "Out of the box", it is a blog engine, or a CMS with support for comments, trackbacks, multiple syndication formats, spam protection, and all the other vital features of such a system. The core Geeklog distribution can easily be extended by the many community developed plugins to radically alter its functionality. Available plugins include forums, image galleries, and many more. Development Status: Production/Stable. PHP-NukePHP-Nuke is a web-based automated news publishing and content management system based on PHP and MySQL. The system is fully controlled using a web-based user interface. PHP-Nuke was originally a fork of the Thatware news portal system. The main aim of PHP-Nuke is to allow a webmaster to create a community-based portal, with an automated web site allowing users and editors to post news items (user-submitted news items are selected by editors). Users can comment on these articles using the comments system. Modules may be added to the PHP-Nuke system, allowing the webmaster to add more features (such as an Internet forum or calendar) to their PHP-Nuke installation in addition to the core modules such as News, FAQ and Private Messaging. The whole system is maintained by administrators using the web-based administration section. PHP Nuke is popular Web Portal software, a solution for any webmaster who would like to develop his own portal. PHP-Nuke has been criticized for containing many security holes, including SQL injection via unchecked PHP code. PHP-Nuke has also been criticized for not being easily indexed by the internet search engines. Development Status: Production/Stable. TYPO3TYPO3 is a small to midsize enterprise-class Content Management Framework offering the best of both worlds: out-of-the-box operation with a complete set of standard modules and a clean and sturdy high-performance architecture accomodating virtually every kind of custom solution or extension. For authors, TYPO3 is a user-friendly, intuitive tool, allowing content editors to produce and maintain web pages, using sophisticated functions in just a few clicks of the mouse. With TYPO3, everyone can participate in web-based communication and customer relations. Seamless integration of multimedia content types and dynamic server-side image manipulation and generation are among the numerous standard options inside this comprehensive toolbox for web-based communication. Also included is an internal messaging and workflow communication system for shared authoring and collaboration. For administrators and content managers, TYPO3 features an extremely detailed user permissions system for implementing professional content creation and editing workflows. TYPO3 is a server-side platform-independent application that can be used with virtually every browser available. TYPO3 is database-driven and scales easily to deliver web pages and embedded formats in an enterprise content providing environment. Development Status: Production/Stable. XOOPSXOOPS is a program that allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more. XOOPS is an acronym of eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Though started as a portal system, XOOPS is in fact striving steadily on the track of Content Management System. It can serve as a web framework for use by small, medium and large sites. A lite XOOPS can be used as a personal weblog or journal. For this purpose, you can do a standard install, and use its News module only. For a medium site, you can use modules like News, Forum, Download, Web Links etc to form a community to interact with your members and visitors. For a large site as an enterprise one, you can develop your own modules such as eShop, and use XOOP's uniform user management system to seamlessly integrate your modules with the whole system. XOOPS is fully modularized which means that functions can be added or deleted; the look can be modified with skins/themes. There are also many different language files available as well as support in many different languages. Development Status: Production/Stable. |
