There is a growing number of community website portals on the internet, including an Arabic website portal that appears to be aimed at the Diaspora Arabic community. Website portals are also used by a growing number of universities as it is a good way to provide a central reference point from which staff and students may access all the information available to them. A website portal is actually the single access point for a variety of services, content and special interest sites.

Many website portals, read like the contents page of a magazine and has a magazine type layout. There are a number of different sections on this type of site, each one linking to content or a core service somewhere else. A really useful website portal has a single signup point, which means that the user can then access any of the content and the services that the portal links to.

The Arabic portal like many such portals is written in the community language but is also available in translation. This makes sense for a website portal as the Arabian and other communities in the west, will have second and third generation members born in another country who may not speak the community language.

Like most other portals the an Arabic portal is managed through the use of several databases, cookies, and application windows. Like most other website portals the Arabic portal contains community news, weather reports as well as access to discussion groups and special interest groups such as automobiles and cooking.

The information on the website portal is organized through both links and page containers that contain a little information on the content or service that the database contains, whether that is women's interest topics or business news and online games that might be enjoyed by the male population. The way in which the information is organized and displayed in categories makes it easy for the visitor to find what they are interested in.

An Arabic Online portal is useful because it contains information and services that would be of particular interest to members of the Arab community. One of the categories links to a database where men are looking for suitable marriage partners and also contains a section that will help the user to locate notices from families looking for a suitable match for their daughter.

When a visitor links to a particular database they may also find other information that is of interest to them. The point of the Arabic website portal or any other portal is to organize and present information on content and services that are located elsewhere. Many visitors may prefer to use an Arab website portal to access the things that they are interested in, rather than relying on information provided by the search engines.

When you use a portal, then you know that the information that comes up will be relevant to what you are looking for. The portal brings together and organizes many of the things that an Arab surfer might want to find on the web. It is much easier to locate what you are looking for when it is already categorized and organized in advance; as it is on any online portal.