How important is a portal page

Ex0dus · Posted: 12/13/2005, 9:49 am Post subject:

It would be either html or BBcode, though Im leaning more on html in this instance.

-Ex0dus

dojo · Posted: 12/19/2005, 6:42 am Post subject:

I don't know if they are that important.

I used a portal when I started wtricks.com. It was 1 year ago. I installed Nuke and used the forums module called phpbbtonuke or something like this. After 2-3 months and some infamous session issues I changed to phpBB standalone (took 10 hours, but I got the posts and members) ... Few days ago I dissed nuke for ever and made the pages HTML only. I have a directory powered by indexu and the phpBB forums, modded to death. And the rest .. good plain html.. Hope will start doing better in the search engines.

For another project I use Nuke too, but for the links. It's getting a great SE traffic, so I really don't understand anything anymore ...
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Niksa · Posted: 12/26/2005, 5:05 am Post subject:

If your site has articles, news items or lots of links in your header.. sometimes it's nice to have a portal or CMS. I prefer phpNuke because they also have a lot of modifications, but it is very hard to integrate phpBB into Nuke, so I will most likely go with a portal like IM or EZ. Haven't decided.

Fugu · Posted: 1/6/2006, 1:50 pm Post subject:

It depends what you're doing with the forum. For my PBeM forums a portal isn't very useful and actually detracts from the forums, I'm currently putting together a forum for a gaming company who wants to start expanding the features of their website and a portal is high on my list that the'll want.

Dash · Posted: 1/6/2006, 2:40 pm Post subject:

The frontpage of my ultra-modified forum is my own portal page, i've taken bits from other portal pages but about 80% of it is mine, it doesn't even look like a portal page anymore! I use it mainly for people that want a quick glance at the most important info.
http://live.daretogame.com/portal.php
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Fugu · Posted: 1/6/2006, 5:21 pm Post subject:

Very nice Dash.

Smiley · Posted: 11/13/2007, 11:37 pm Post subject: Re: How important is a portal page

Coyote · Posted: 11/18/2007, 6:32 pm Post subject:

I use IM Portal. It's a little more complicated than ezP (ok, a lot more complicated), but it's also more powerful.

Miss_Smiley · Posted: 3/25/2008, 3:36 pm Post subject:

Like HG I use my portal as a front door to my forums and as its the landing platform for it I think it needs to give a good impression so folks come back. Sometimes a forum alone can be confusing and overwhelming to a newbie and someone who isnt confident on the net.

JKThinking · Posted: 3/30/2008, 2:04 pm Post subject:

Granted my view on Portals is a little biased since I am a Staff member for phpBBireland. I find like quite a few of you have said that a Portal is a front door to the website and use it on most of my forums, however there are easily times when I can see a Portal is more of a nuisance then anything else. For example on blog sites a portal is pointless and on forums that are straight forward and only about one particular thing in general then a portal can distract from that one thing. A portal is good for using when the site has other features, feedback, chat, podcasts, videocasts and anything to that effect.