My Portal Project

The NNg has an interesting report out that highlights some of the pitfalls and planning points that a company should know when creating a portal. An interesting section was which apps/tools were common in succesful portals. Some of these are a little vague, but nonetheless they point out that the old “HR Forms/About Us” portals […]

Jakob Nielson, of the Nielson Norman group, recently sent out an interesting newsletter where he highlighted the similarities in almost every successful portal home page. The image below is a composite of ten portal/intranet home pages where the similarities are striking

The general layout typically works like this:
Top horizontal bar: colored background, 100 pixels tall. Typically […]