web portal

Digital information doorway

A web portal is a website that serves as a starting point or gateway to other content on the internet.

Portals typically aggregate information from multiple sources—news, email, search, weather—into a single interface.

The term dates from the early internet era when sites like Yahoo and AOL positioned themselves as users' home pages: Set your browser's homepage to our portal.

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user interface · user login · single sign-on · content curation · content management · news feed · personalization · drag and drop · intranet · responsive design · knowledge base · RSS feeds · SharePoint · enterprise software · MSN · notifications · database management · widgets

Categories
Opposites
scope and aggregation

web portalmicrosite

Small separate promotional webpage

landing page · personal homepage · blog

access model

web portaldeep link

Link to internal content

technological era

web portalcard catalog

Indexed library reference collection

newspaper · telephone book · bulletin board · command-line interface · reference desk

Family

web, website, portal, webs, webbed, webbing, webpage, portals, websites

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Everyday, not technical · Rated G