Web Portal Requirements and Analysis

You should implement your portal in a series of short, focused phases, each of which is designed to deliver value to the business. The modular nature of the portal, which promotes the creation of modular, reusable port let- and template-based UIs, user profiles and content types, helps in this regard.

Basic Requirements in Web Portal development:
• Provide portal administration user interface
• Provide functionality of User groups and directory
• Portal should highlight Dashboard, intranet or enterprise searching
• Provide facility for Dashboard personalization and customization
• Include Calendar tool (individual, group, enterprise)
• Provide alerting messages and events
• Instant messaging
• Facility for newsletters subscription
• Blogging application
1. Member login
2. Blog Creation: Provide topic selection and tag selection for blog
3. Blog Verification and approval
4. Allow comments on blogs
5. Stars rating for Blogs
• Licensed news and information feeds
1. Latest News
2. Most Viewed news
3. Most Commented news
4. Other Top Stories
• RSS aggregators and publish RSS feeds
• Attention streams
• Collaboration spaces and team sites
• Facility for profile management
• Storage and document repositories
• Mapping and geolocation tools

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) announced Web Performance Working Group

W3C has announced a new Web Performance Working Group, whose mission is to provide methods to measure aspects of application performance of user agent features and APIs. As Web browsers and their underlying engines include richer capabilities and become more powerful, Web developers are building more sophisticated applications where application performance is increasingly important. Developers need the ability to assess and understand the performance characteristics of their applications using well-defined interoperable methods. This new Working Group will look at user agent features and APIs to measure aspects of application performance. Group deliverables will apply to desktop and mobile browsers and other non-browser environments where appropriate and will be consistent with Web technologies designed in other working groups including HTML, CSS, WebApps, DAP and SVG. Learn more in the Working Group charter and how this work fits into the W3C's Rich Web Client Activity.

seo for cms - seo for content management system

First step is Choose Quality CMS. Using various analytical reports on Open source CMS, Choose best one which fits your business requirements.Analyze hosting, geographic location and domains situation. Ensure the maintenance and upgrade path is clear.

This will reduce the SEO consultant’s basic work, set strict quality-control procedure for content management system implementation.

Validate a reference site with the W3C Check metadata and Meta description are accessible and editable for CMS. To achieve this use correct plug-in. Check URLs are correctly generating for content. Use standard procedure for this activity

Main drawback of cms is they use different paths for the same content. we can fix this using a correct plugin that allows you to choose the most valid address for the content item or page
Other regular seo activities are applicable for cms like
1. Use Key Words in URLs
2. Use Site Navigation as Text links, don't use images
3. Publish to a Flat Directory
4. Eliminate Broken Links
5. Xml Site Maps submission
6. Google Site Maps
7. Avoid Spelling Errors
8. Avoid Duplicate Content
9. Appropriate Use of robots.txt

Role of w3c validations in search engine optimization

Obviously content is very important for search engine optimization
If you have a site with no quality content and no backlinks yet are 100% compliant with W3C standards, the site will still not rank well in search engines

Google has clearly stated that W3C validation does not affect search engine rankings. the page will not rewarded with a higher in search ranking.

Still we should consider the Points listed below as a Role of w3c validations in Search engine optimization

1.Minimize Page Load Time for great website visitor experience
2.Minimize Bounce Rates for your website
When you validate your content grammatically ,Markup,css,rss,mobile compatibility using w3c validations,then you can go for other important Search engine optimization tasks.
http://seow3c.blogspot.com/2010/07/seo-tasks.html

Google Ranking - KEYWORD plays very important role

Here we are discussing importance of keywords in website development.
Domain name and page names should be a valid Keyword relevant to the web content.
In URL first words are very important
Areas where KEYWORD plays very important role :
1.Page Header with proper Keywords
2.Page Title tag with proper Keyword
3.Description Meta tag with Keyword
4.Keyword in metatag
5.Keyword density in body text
6.Keyword in H1, H2 and H3
7.Font size of Keyword
8.Keyword in alt text
9.Keyword in links to site pages (anchor text)

Web Security Context Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation

The Web Security Context Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines. This specification deals with the trust decisions that users must make online, and with ways to support them in making safe and informed decisions where possible. It describes user interactions and user interface guidelines with a goal toward making security usable, based on known best practice in this area. Learn more about the Security Activity.

RDFa Group has published two Working Drafts: RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1

The RDFa Working Group has just published two Working Drafts: RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1. RDFa Core 1.1 is a specification for attributes to express structured data in any markup language. The embedded data already available in the markup language (e.g., XHTML) is reused by the RDFa markup, so that publishers don't need to repeat significant data in the document content. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 is an XHTML family markup language. That extends the XHTML 1.1 markup language with the attributes defined in RDFa Core 1.1. This document is intended for authors who want to create XHTML-Family documents that embed rich semantic markup. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

w3c Releases all in one Validator - Unicorn

W3C has released Unicorn, a one-stop tool to help people improve the quality of their Web pages. Unicorn combines a number of popular tools in a single, easy interface, including the Markup validator, CSS validator, mobileOk checker, and Feed validator, which remain available as individual services as well. W3C inviting developers to enhance the service by creating new modules and testing them in our online developer space (or installing Unicorn locally). W3C looking forward to code contributions from the community as well as suggestions for new features.  Learn more about W3C open source software.download


The W3C's unified validator service will definetly help the people to improve the quality of their Web pages