Editing Web portal (section)

===Personal portal===

A personal portal is a Web Page at a Website on the [[World Wide Web]] or a local HTML home page including JavaScript and perhaps running in a modified [[Web browser]]. A personal portal typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors or its local user, providing a pathway to other content. It may be designed to use [[distributed application]]s, different numbers and types of [[Middleware (distributed applications)|middleware]] and hardware to provide services from a number of different sources and may run on a non-standard local Web server. In addition, business portals can be designed for sharing and collaboration in workplaces. A further business-driven requirement of portals is that the content be presented on multiple platforms such as [[personal computer]]s, laptops, tablet computers, [[personal digital assistant]]s (PDAs), [[cell phone]]s and [[smartphone]]s.

Information, news, and updates are examples of content that could be delivered through such a portal. Personal portals can be related to any specific topic such as providing friends information on a social network or providing links to outside content that may help others beyond the reach of services. Portals are not limited to simply providing links. Outside of business intranet user, very often simpler portals become replaced with richer mashup designs. Within enterprises, early portals were often replaced by much more powerful "dashboard" designs. Some also have relied on newer protocols such as some version of RSS aggregation and may or may not involve some degree of Web harvesting.