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Fugu
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
Posts: 6
Location: Victoria. BC
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 Posted: 1/6/2006, 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Very nice Dash. |
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Smiley
Joined: 13 Nov 2007
Posts: 10
Location: Great Britain
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| Posted: 11/13/2007, 11:37 pm Post subject: Re: How important is a portal page |
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| Teknomancer wrote: |
How important do you think a portal page to a site is. Personally, I don't feel much need of having a portal page to cover a site that is ONLY a forum.
I feel a portal page is needed only when the site has many other sections than just the forum. But the portal page sometimes also seems to "fit' fine for pure forum sites, and many people use it this way too.
I'm deciding whether or not I should have a portal page for my site which happens to be only a discussion forum like CommunityAdmins.
So, how important/essential do you think a portal page is? |
I don't think a portal page is very important, unless you have a lot of features, as the side navigation and the blocks can come in handy then.
I have ezPortal installed, and I regret installing it as I don't really need it. I can't remove it now, as the members are used to it, and like it.
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Coyote
Joined: 13 Oct 2007
Posts: 5
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| Posted: 11/18/2007, 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I use IM Portal. It's a little more complicated than ezP (ok, a lot more complicated), but it's also more powerful. |
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Miss_Smiley
Joined: 21 Mar 2008
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| Posted: 3/25/2008, 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| 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. |
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JKThinking
Joined: 10 Mar 2008
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| Posted: 3/30/2008, 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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| 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. |
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