Personalized News Portal

Personalized News Portal

The project entitled personalized News Portal aims at establishing a comprehensive portal for providing news. This portal is an organized conduit and online, for providing up-to-date news information on the Internet. The portal will consist of sections addressing different information needs. It informs, provides extensive resources, and services online for the general public. It provides a vast range of new opportunities for feedback, customization of content, instant publishing,(hyper)linking, articles etc. This project use Web Parts framework, allowing programmers to easily integrate drag ’n drop menus etc. in their web portals. This framework is easy to use and all client based design settings are stored by ASP.NET data providers in an easy way. The developer has nothing to do with the save or load process of Web Parts design based settings

Modules

It Mainly Consist of two modules Administrator and user module.

Administrator module

1. Creating Category and subcategory

In this module we can add new category and sub category of news. For example if politics is the category then Indian politics, politics in Kerala etc are subcategories.

2. Reports

In this module administrator can view no of users, more visited links, more interested topics etc.

User Module

1. User Registration

In this module new user can register by giving his/her username, password, email address etc. using this username and password user can enter into the site.

2. Personalizing his/her page

In this module user can personalize his/her page by arranging his favorite link. Each user can arrange his site by drag and drop links and he can give his favorite color. An Xml file is used to save this arrangement.

3. News Reading

This module provides up-to-date news information on the Internet. The portal will consist of sections addressing different information needs. It informs, provides extensive resources and services online for the general public. This module use RSS method reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper." Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the.

4. Feedback

In this module user can send feedback about the news and he can sent his own articles using file uploading technology.

5. Mailing

In this module user can send e-mail with CDOSYS. CDO (Collaboration Data Objects) is a Microsoft technology that is designed to simplify the creation of messaging applications.CDOSYS is a built-in component in ASP. We will show you how to use this component to send e-mail with ASP.