1 year to go!

**Emancipator** · 11-24-2004, 10:51 AM

i consider a portal a content management system. Perhaps I should have asked what poorman meant as well. I am quite proud of my content management system since it took me a fair bit of planning and conceiving.

It has a complete admin interface for those who work on the site to easily add news, images, movies, trailers, etc.

**r2d2** · 11-24-2004, 01:10 PM

Nice

I programmed a fairly basic CMS for my old casino site.

I had thought a portal was like msn.com or something thats just acts like a portal to take you to other sites and stuff...

**Chris** · 11-24-2004, 01:18 PM

I believe the standard definition of a portal is one of the large generic homepages on the Internet. A portal to Internet content. AOL, Yahoo, these are portals. Google to a lesser extent.

**moonshield** · 11-24-2004, 03:51 PM

like slashdot, that is a portal based design.. I think. I thinking like SOOP...

**Emancipator** · 11-24-2004, 04:47 PM

so i guess we can say my site is not a portal by your definition

**ozgression** · 11-24-2004, 07:52 PM

I wouldn't consider it a portal, either. More so a content site with a strong community element.

Cheers...
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**incka** · 11-25-2004, 12:34 AM

I wouldn't consider google a portal at all.

**MarkB** · 11-25-2004, 03:00 AM

Google News, however, is.

**James** · 11-25-2004, 09:03 AM

Should we return from the tangent to help Topcat here, by any chance?

**Emancipator** · 11-25-2004, 12:17 PM

i think my post was helpfull. Or at least that was the intent. I keep checking to see if topcat has replied, hes probly afk for some turkey me thinks.

**MarkB** · 11-25-2004, 12:25 PM

Personally I think pinning your chances on making enough money to live on (or keep yourself out of dire straights) is quite a gamble. While it's possible to do it within a year, I don't want to get the chap's hopes up

**Blue Cat Buxton** · 11-25-2004, 12:44 PM

For the record, I think he's a she

**MarkB** · 11-25-2004, 12:54 PM

Chappette, then

**Emancipator** · 11-25-2004, 02:27 PM

yeah im with you Mark. I would NEVER put my hopes into a website. I do mine for the love of movies, and my new website for the love of it to

It generates money, then great, so long as it covers the bills. But I am sure if people put more effort in they could make enough, where as I am only giving it a bit of effort.

**topcat** · 11-25-2004, 02:34 PM

No turkey, i is veggie..and female

Cool, I think i'll keep my first 2 as smaller sites and start mulling over ideas for a larger more professional looking site to do next.

Mark, take your point on the gamble aspect of this....the plan is to contract every one in a while anyway...plus I have the financial backup of redundancy pay.

Think I'll just go for it and see how much I can achieve in the year. It's a good challenge if nothing else and I enjoy it...

cheers all,

cat