It consists in performing a study aimed at determining the Portal objectives, the public or the communities that the portal will address, the information to be published and the way in which this information will be targeted. The product obtained will be the following:
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Portal Vision (Business Model)
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Portal navigation map
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Portal graphic design
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Contents Management
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Architecture (Hardware and Software required)
Site Vision – Business Model
In this stage, you must analyze the Portal objective and the public that the portal will address. Once the mentioned elements have been defined, it is important to analyze the competence and/or current trends in portals of similar characteristics. From this analysis you will obtain the following:
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Purpose
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Target Audience
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Macro-level content: Information and Services complying with the requirements of the potential visitors.
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Strategic alliances
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Content presentation strategy
Portal navigation map
Based on what was analyzed in the previous stage, in this stage you will define the portal navigation structure establishing the relation between the different portal pages. This will allow visualizing clearly the way in which the portal information, applications and services will be divided. The result obtained from this analysis will be the following:
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Portal Map
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Different channels within the portal
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Portal pages
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Structure of the Portal navigation tree (menus)
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Definition of Services (forums, chats, search mechanisms, FAQ’s, surveys, newsletters)
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Advertising Mechanisms (Banners and other mechanisms)
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Definition of the requirements for the integration with other portals
Portal graphic design
Based on the definitions of the previous stages, you will work together with the web designers to define the Portal aesthetic design. The product of this stage will be the portal graphic design in HTML and the images making up the design of the different portal pages and spreadsheets.
Content Management
Definition of content sources and processes for content incorporation and administration. For this, you will have to define the following:
Definition of the content structure (Components)
Definition or the Work Flow for content incorporation and management.
Definition of the support required by the Portal services
Definition of the administrative processes customization to integrate them to the Content edition and publication.
Architecture
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Availability Requirements
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Contingency Requirements
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Definition Hosting vs. Housing
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Definition of Servers:
Database Server
Web Server
Application Server
Chat Server
Images Server
Mail Server
File Server
Multimedia Server (Audio and Video)
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Definition of the Platform
Definition of the generation Language (C/SQL, C#)
Base Software of the different servers
Hardware needed for the required servers
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Definition of the Site security
Security at Hardware level
Security at base Software level
Security at Programming level