Web Portal

Web Portal
Abstract:
You can design a web portal. Main Functionalities of a Web Portal are
User / Member Registration:
For Web Portals or normal websites this is a necessary feature. We should give on line membership registration facilities. Some mandatory data need to collect are “First Name,Last Name,email ID,password ,Confirm password etc
Web based Booking Engine:
You can make a generic booking engine which can book the tickets for different items like Hotel Rooms,Tour Plans,Tour Packages,Activities,Film shows / Movies,Books etc. So your members or anonymous users can book these items. The money transaction will be happening through credit cards. To achieve this functionality you need to have a payment gate way interface .Payment gate way is nothing but a secure interface through which credit card transaction is possible. “Asia Pay”,”Bank of China Payment gate way”,”Pay Pal”,”HDFC Payment gateway” are examples. If you can Print a bar code on tickets that would also be nice.For barcode interface i would suggest “Aspose”.You can download a free dll from there site and you can use it. They will provide the sample codes also.
Change Password / Forgot(Reset) Password :
You should need to include this functionality also to the web portal.You
Free SMS Provision:
If you can give some provision to send free sms etc to your users. That will increase your site's popularity. Some websites like indyarocks.com are offering that provision .you can check that also.
Technologies:
Front End:ASP.NET 3.5 -Scalability would be more. You can use PHP ,Java etc too
Back End:SQL Server 2005,Or Oracle,MySQL etc .According to your expertise