It's your electronic toolbox, a set of tools allowing you to build a dynamically generated web site that five years ago would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to launch. It provides you with a site to build a community, a community that interacts with the content so they can call it their own. Again this is why we've called it a C3MS, Community, Content, and Collaborative Management System.

This means that you can administrate your web site from anywhere with internet access, regardless of the software running, as long as the computer can connect to the internet, you can change your site.

Another advantage of Portal over static web pages is that it allows interaction between your users and your web site. Through users user identifiers, they can add content to your site. They can add links in your web links database, or downloads to your downloads database, and, should you want to restrict any part of this the Portal  permissions system allows you to have almost any combination of permissions to allow users different access levels to each area of your site.

Users are much more likely to visit a website if the website changes regularly, and if they can have input into the content of the site. Porta allows this to happen, and the advantage to administrators, as well as end users, is immense.