Question: Difference between a Website and a Portal. Please be specific & crisp & to the point? 

Answer: A web site is designed and posted to the Internet.  The user/visitor has little to no say over what they see when they visit the site.\n\nA portal allows the user/visitor to customize the view, thus requiring some sort of log in.  Yahoo is run on portal software and is a great example.  What you see at my.yahoo.com is different then what I see.
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