About Portals.ae

We build, update, and maintain web portals tailored to your business needs—straightforward and efficient.

Hassle-free web portal development for businesses—take your workflows to the next level.

Design

We use Bootstrap to create the User Interface (UI) of your web portal. Bootstrap allows for rapid prototyping and a responsive user experience on any device. Its pre-built components save us time and help maintain consistency.

Development

Our portals are coded in PHP on the LAMP stack. PHP brings to life all the front-end components, logic, and workflows your app requires.

With the LAMP stack at its center, the combination of PHP and MariaDB ensures robust performance, security, and scalability, making your portal efficient and cost-effective.

Deployment

During development, we continuously deploy to staging for testing in a live environment identical to production. Once built and tested, we use Git to automatically deploy all code and assets to your production server.

Our staging and production servers reside on AWS, and we're happy to deploy on Azure or other cloud services upon request.

Have questions?

We code custom web portals for business applications. Accounting systems and ERPs often fall short of providing features for swift communication, data sharing, and archival. We build systems around these themes to help businesses improve their daily workflows and provide handy information to all stakeholders.

Cost is relative, much like building a house. The cost of construction depends on the type of house being built. To give you an idea, we publish starting prices for building a moderately specced system and related costs. Learn more on our Pricing page.

A system with a handful of modules takes between 45-90 days to build from scratch. Scroll down to the 'Development times' section to read more about this.

We are proficient in building PHP web apps. PHP is a robust web programming language used on millions, if not billions, of websites. Some of our earliest work on PHP dates back to when we started Spiderz.

Starting out is really simple. Fill in the form on our contact page.

Wondering about price?

Take a look at what it costs to build a complete system, from start to finish.

See our Pricing

Development Stack. What we build on.

Choosing the right web stack saves valuable time and money.

We build portals using the best free and open-source technologies on the Linux platform—namely PHP and MariaDB/MySQL. The UI is designed with the latest version of the Bootstrap framework, aiding rapid prototyping. PHP connects the UI to your database, bringing all code logic and workflows to life.

LAMP technologies are free to use, require no licensing, and are open-source. They're widely used on the Internet and allow for rapid deployment across various cloud service providers.

Read more about Our Web Stack

Development Times. How long it takes.

Planning and active exchange of information help speed up projects.

Our portal development lifecycle begins with online meetings with all stakeholders. This helps us understand the time needed for systems analysis and building specifications for design. We keep our clients engaged and updated regularly, so development depends on how quickly we receive feedback.

Expect 60-120 days of active development time for a mid-sized system, from start to finish. It's best to assign a project coordinator on your end to channel all internal communication to us, avoiding noise.

Development Pipeline. How busy are we?

There's always time in the future for that new project.

We work on one project at a time, so we hit that 100% busy mark as soon as we begin one. As things ease up and we near shipment, we start preparing for the next project in line. Sometimes, we shift and shuffle depending on priorities at both our clients' end and ours.

The best way forward is to speak to us and share what you're planning. As our conversation progresses, we'll get a clearer idea of when we can hit that 'build' button.

Meanwhile, the following progress bar gives you an idea of how busy we are during December*. The chart accounts for both our client and personal projects.

*Updated once a month, usually during the first week of the month.

Here's what to do Next

Share what you know, let us help you fill in the gaps.

A portal is essentially a web app that's private to your organization. It helps with workflows that aren't covered by your accounting system or ERP.

A typical portal solution will include a combination of the following:

  • User authentication and management
  • Role-based access control
  • Internal communication and asset sharing
  • Task and project management
  • Document management and indexing
  • Process automation and integration capabilities
  • Integration with third-party applications
  • Custom reporting and analytics
  • Customizable dashboards
  • Real-time notifications and alerts

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