A portal is mostly a page filled with useful links. A page that visitors want to bookmark. [Example] Alas, all about Kidlink on one large portal will hardly serve visitors. We have too much. What is interesting to a teacher may not be interesting for a child, an aunt, or a bureaucrat. Therefore, we use different portals for different audiences, to serve larger programs or activities.

This guideline builds on Kidlink's general guideline for giving web pages a compatible look and feel. Only special notes about creating portals are found here.

Left-centered

Portals are left-centered throughout to make them visually different from contents pages, which are centered. Headers, as well as footers, are moved towards the left margin.

Illustrations

Pictures or photos are often put in a colored column at the left, and usually has width=100. Other photos may be included in the rest of the body to entice and motivate visitors to click.

Portal table structure

Use our template. Enter your text in designated areas, make table borders invisible, and you're done.

Body of your text

Text in English language portals are designed for people who read text from left to right. Thus, our most important information is usually put in the middle column. If your audience reads from right to left, consider putting your most information in the rightmost column.

Use a simple <br> (line feed) under subtitles to separate items, and a <IMG SRC="/icons/dotclear.gif" WIDTH="15" HEIGHT="1"> for indentation. The dotclear.gif is simply a 1x1 pixel blank image which may be enlarged in height and width. Indentation example:

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