The world has progressed immensely in the last decade, and so have the common skills held by people. Nowadays most employees in an organization have skills to use the Internet and Microsoft Word. There has been an effort to harness these skills held by these people to develop web-applications by masking the technical details from them.
This work investigates the techniques for facilitating rapid development of an information portal and evaluates the effectiveness of the technique chosen to develop and maintain an information portal. Our chosen technique involves using the Mambo content management system to develop an information portal architecture rapidly and delegating the responsibility of content management i.e. to add, change and delete content to novice users (who have no web-programming skills), by masking the technical details from the novice users. We have tested our approach in the development of the Centers for Osteopathic Research and Education (CORE) information portal. We have performed initial quantitative analysis to evaluate the applicability of Mambo CMS to the CORE information portal, which is a basic mid-size information portal.