Who Should Attend:
Web site developers and project managers who wish to add portal features to their Web sites and increase the "stickiness" of their sites. For the sample code presentations, you should have a basic understanding of PHP and database integration.

Learn how to leverage existing sites by adding portal features, including allowing user-customizable content and interfaces, groupware features, and standard Internet services that users are probably using at another site right now. Discover the value of adding features to your site to create a community and to encourage visitors to use multiple services in your site's structure. We'll also outline some common and easy-to-add services that add significant value to any site, yet require little additional administration.

You'll see demonstrations of real code that can be immediately incorporated in a site. Although most of the presented code will be in PHP and Perl, the concepts are applicable to any platform.

Course Outline:

• Making your site a destination instead of a pitstop
• The importance of incorporating features into your site now
• Portal services for your users
• Creating and building a community
• Database integration
• Coding right: zero-administration applications
• Examples with code:
  • Forums
  • Mailing Lists
  • Webmail
  • Postcards
  • Personalization with cookies
  • Grabbing headlines from other sites
  • Interacting with command line applications
  • Sending your headlines to paging services
  • Affiliates