Mike - Has your IT team considered - or can you get them to consider - customization on top of an out-of-the-box product? The most technically challenging part of portal development is the permissions structure - making sure that people can only see/do what they're authorized to. Especially important when the people in question are from different/competing companies.
Permissions are a majorly sticky piece of design and engineering. If you can get some larger company's dev team to build that as your basis, you've got a leg up, and can concentrate on where you can really add value: designing the custom features/experience that your specific business context requires. HTH, - Billie (designed customizations to several portal products in a previous incarnation) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Scarpiello Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:58 AM To: Joseph Selbie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Designing a portal from scratch In a nutshell, we are a restaurant type web site - think Zagat or Metromix, and want our 8000+ merchants to be able to edit information about their restaurants themselves via a portal. The IT team has rejected out of the box software and is interested in creating an in house solution. Does that help? Thanks. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
