Portaportal

What is portaportal? Portaportal is a free bookmarking utility. It allows you to store your favorite website links online, instead of on one machine. I can’t tell you the number of times I found a website at home that I wanted to use with my students, but just bookmarked it at home without saving it to my USB drive for school. With portaportal I don’t have to worry about this ever happening again! I can simply copy the URL, go to portaportal.com, and past the link in my portal. I like portaportal even more now that I know it is not blocked by my county’s filter.

Portaportal has many aspects that make it easy for users. It allows you to organize bookmarks into categories. You can divide your portal by subject, class, or whatever you want. If you don’t like one of your categories, no problem, you can edit it. If you want a more detailed organization method, you can add sub-categories. Once you have established categories you are ready to bookmark your links. To bookmark a link, highlight the URL, click the category where you want to add the link, give the link a title (anything you want), then paste the link. Additionally, portaportal allows you to tailor the detail of your portal to your liking. You can change the layout, colors, greetings, and many to the details. Here is a sample portal from portaportal.com.

Finally, portaportal allows you to share your portal, if you want. If you want to share your portal you simply give others your login name. Once they have your login name they may login using the guest access section. If you do not want to share your portal you can set your portal to deny guest access.

Do you think the name portaportal sounds like port-a-potty? Well, you are not the only one! In fact, it was in the frequently asked questions and the answer was…“it's supposed to be funny.” Check out other frequently asked questions about portaportal.