Creation of the portal - occupation not only labor-consuming, but also very risky. Probability that the made website will be unclaimed among users is high; however the successful concept and high-quality implementation will help to avoid it.
Instruction
1. Think over the concept of the portal. Golden rule of any author of web projects: "It is possible to make the website about tools, and attendance will be 100 people a month. And it is possible to create the website devoted to the only screw-driver and to receive 120 people daily". In other words – it is much more favorable and more correct to do the narrow-purpose websites. It is plus in such approach weight, but main – it is much simpler to contain the local portal, and you will meet much less the competition. For example: you want to make the website about cinema. However it is not necessary to the ordinary user because for this purpose there is Kinopoisk. Then, the website "cinema in Tomsk" will be a way out, and the portal will be automatically more useful to any resident of this city as closer.
2. Draw future portal on the sheet of paper. When you contact the agency (or to the certain programmer) with a request to make to you the website, risk that the performer will have own vision of the project. Therefore, it is much more favorable (and it is more convenient to you) will submit clearly the scheme of the final product: it not only will accelerate implementation of your order, but also will leave you full authority to consider the project own.
3. Make the team of the moderators and administrators who are responsible for materials. Constantly to maintain relevance of the website, it is necessary to update content which is contained in it in due time. The easiest and chastoprimenyaemy way on the Internet are "news" on the homepage, however, also other options are possible: articles, video lessons, auxiliary materials and other headings which will answer a portal subject. Missing continuous update and development of the website you, thereby, sharply reduce its usefulness for users who already to the second visit will have nothing to find for themselves.
4. Contribute to the development of community. The difference of qualitatively run portal from the ordinary website is that on the portal the user has a desire to remain. For this purpose, first, the distinct system of feedback of users is necessary: an opportunity to vote for quality of materials, to comment or spread own works. And existence of "forum" in general became an obligatory attribute of any project respecting itself. Forming of "community", "skeleton of regular users", directly depends on two things: high interactivity and continuous emergence of relevant content.