hello friends, just need your opinion. what do u think is better. one site with many services like portal or one site only one services. i like the first one.all the big sites like yahoo and google etc only use one domain to provide many services.what do u like?
that's the method all big one use! and i have told this method a long time back. i was surprised to see, geocities.com and i pointed out, that yahoo will take that into it's subdomain very soon, and yes, now it is geocities.yahoo.com, so, it is pretty obvious that the subdomains work. you can have mail.domain.com, chat.domain.com etc, but then can you promote all those subdmains easily!! this method is good for the big sites only, i would suggest you to have small and targeted domains for each service, that helps a lot more in traffic!! cheers!!
i understand. i have few sites and many ideas which i am going to implement. the problem is managing different sites is a nightmare.many emails ,many support desks many customisations etc. The thing which i like about many services from one websites is that all the traffic of different subdomains add up to become the traffic of main domain.thus boosting alexa etc rankings. the problem is that login and authentication for different services is a real problem.there is no such help for authentication in php for larger sites.