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Portal vs Site

The Portal and website can be differentiated as :

Authentication:
Portal: It provides facility of Logging-In. Provides you with information based on who you are. e.g. mail.yahoo.com,gmail.com,rediffmail.com Website: No log-in. e.g. www.yahoo.com

Personalization:
Portal: Limited, focused content. Eliminates the need to visit many different sites. e.g.You type in your user name and password and see your yahoo mail only.
Website: Extensive, unfocused content written to accommodate anonymous users needs.

Customization :
Portal: You will select and organize the materials you want to access. Organized with the materials you want to access.
Website: Searchable, but not customizable. All content is there for every visitor. e.g. you can navigate to yahoo mail, yahoo shopping, geo cities, yahoo group. If you wish to use any of these services you will either have to authenticate yourself and see things personalized to you or you can simply visit sections that are for everyone like yahoo news were if you are not signed in then the default sign in is guest.

Web site is collection of pages. Web portal is service which can be a repository.
Web sites are collections of web sites.

The term 'portal' is used to describe a website that acts as an entry point or gateway to an array of services or resources. Obviously all sites can do this to some degree, but typically a portal will have a wide range of resources, usually including a search facility, directory of other sites, news, e-mail etc. portals can be general (eg Yahoo) or be specific to a particular industry, occupation or field of interest.
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