Building Really Elegant Web Portals, Part 1
This is part one of a two-part article. Part two is here.
This article discusses principles for building really elegant web portals. More precisely, it’s about how to build portals in a really elegant way. Even though I use a particular development stack for the example implementation, the principles can apply generally to other platforms as well.
Web-based applications and interfaces have become very popular. Even certain kinds of equipment, like routers, generally implement a web-based GUI. In the telecom community, sites that allow subscribers to access and manage their services are often referred to as "portals". There are a lot of approaches to designing a portal site, and a lot of potential pitfalls that could be avoided with the right approach.
A Design Pattern for Portals
Usually, when a portal has to be built, people go looking around for a framework to use, or they use the one they already know. There are some pretty good frameworks out there, but in my experienc…
This article discusses principles for building really elegant web portals. More precisely, it’s about how to build portals in a really elegant way. Even though I use a particular development stack for the example implementation, the principles can apply generally to other platforms as well.
Web-based applications and interfaces have become very popular. Even certain kinds of equipment, like routers, generally implement a web-based GUI. In the telecom community, sites that allow subscribers to access and manage their services are often referred to as "portals". There are a lot of approaches to designing a portal site, and a lot of potential pitfalls that could be avoided with the right approach.
A Design Pattern for Portals
Usually, when a portal has to be built, people go looking around for a framework to use, or they use the one they already know. There are some pretty good frameworks out there, but in my experienc…