The Dinosaur Portal

We're going to create an example site, the Dinosaur Portal, as we move through the book. The Dinosaur Portal does not have an extensive list of requirements; we simply want to create a site with features such as a structure for adding dinosaur-related stories and a place for entering information about various dinosaurs. We also want to make sure that the site looks very distinctive, and is fun.

The Dinosaur Portal is based around the premise that 'just because you haven't seen a dinosaur, it doesn't mean they've all died out'. It will be a place where people can explore a range of rather fantastical theories about dinosaurs and their interactions with other life forms.

A web portal is a site that is a gateway to other resources on the Internet (or possibly an intranet). The features of PHP-Nuke are ideal for creating web portals, and the Dinosaur Portal will be a gateway to a whole host of eclectic, dinosaur-based resources.