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 * Research background**

A community Web portal is an online database application that allows its users to easily create and update content. Not only does a community portal need to be easy to use, the information in the portal needs to be easy to find and easy for users to modify. The structure of the content in the database can help make the information easier to find. Too much structure inhibits users from easily contributing content. Community portal initiatives often fail due to lack of user input. Community developers and Web developers often struggle to understand each other’s points of view.

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