Internet technology was developed during the mid 1990's and since then it has changed and modernized the life of people in several different ways. A web portal means that it consists of a many links which linked you to other web pages on internet. From since then, the function and structure of web portals have changed a lot. Now, you will find that web portals will be providing you with the specified information that you are looking for. Now, most of the web portals will present you with the links to different websites and also many types of applications. There are many intranet portals developed which are specifically for the various universities and companies too. Many of the portals will present you with the option of enabling features and also disabling them.

You can choose the different information that you want to display on your portal. You should decide in advance the subject matter of your portal; this will be helpful in deciding the features for your audience. For instance- if your web portal is about all cricket matches, then it should consist of all the links to the past matches and how to get online cricket score. You should choose a CMS intranet. CMS is a content management system application through which a web administrator can change the content. CMS intranet has got many advantages for its user. By using this, you don't have to specifically code every page. Some of the very popular CMS available are joomla, XOOPS and Drupal. These are open for use and can be used freely for the commercial or for private purpose. One of the commercial portals is SharePoint; this is very popular in enterprises. If you want to use it for the option of small businesses, then you can make use of hyper office. Whenever you are choosing your CMS, you should check yours site and always opt that CMS which consist of all the modules that will be supporting all the features. You can check the CMS documentation; this will provide you with more information. You will be requiring various technologies such as databases and scripting technologies. You should always choose that web host which will be support all the CMS requirements. You should install your CMS and then do its configuration. You will be required to do uploading of all the CMS files. Now, you should enable all the modules of your portal. Now, you can start uploading the content on your website.