Today I downloaded and installed AjaxPortal to take it on a test drive.
I am looking for a homepage program for our church web site. I would like to have a portal type page with church news and other items set up so that people can visit and keep up with what is happening more easily.
I mentioned in a previous entry that I am impressed with AJAX based homepage portals, but I am not impressed with AjaxPortal itself.
I have several issues with it. The first is the quality of grammar and spelling throughout the script. The It is obvious that there was not much care put into the program’s presentation by the numerous spelling errors. Simple words like “visual” and “easy” (esay) are messed up throughout the script and their site. I understand that the writers may not be native English speakers, but it is still sloppy.
The site says that AjaxPortal is free, but I believe I was testing a demo. I hope it was a demo since it was lacking in function and usability. Stuff moved around and things were editable, but there were no real tools to make it a useful system.
One of the greatest faaults is that it runs as one page. Everything you do is in one page, as long as you are on the site all content changes happen on the one loaded page. At first this sounds nifty. After all, that is the purpose of AJAX. The site ofr AjaxPortal refers to that as the wounder [sic] of AJAX. But being one page means that there is no “Back Button.” I used “Backspace” at one point and ended up at the page I was on before visiting the portal, and trying the forward button brought me to the starting page of the portal.
I am still looking. If anyone knows of a good system for this I would be glad to hear about it.
Have you found a good Ajax Portal software package?
I too have issue with AjaxPortal. It appears they threw it together and are now letting anyone develop it but have no intention of doing anymore themselves.
I surrendered