Portal Design and Implementation

Abstract

"Portal" is a collection of different Internet technologies that provide different types of services. The most commonly used services are chat, e-mail, newsgroup, discussion-group, bulletin board, downloads, notice board, services provided by organization, etc. These services are provided by different organizations at different level. The services can be categorized as private and public. The purpose of this project is to design a simple portal for the host institute viz. Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Chandigarh and implement some of the services. The services may not exactly match with the same type of services as found on Internet portals. However, these will be customized to institute needs. Also some of the services such as www will be available on Internet for public access but other services such as e-mail will be available only for institute staff members. The services proposed to develop are: 1.Public access :www, newsletter 2.Private (members): chat, e-mail, notice board, ftp The programming will be carried out using the Java language. Also, it involves server setup, DNS installation and registration. The server will be setup using either Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 server or Red Hat Linux server. For this purpose, the project thesis work will also include server installation, configuration and required administration.