I appreciate the help in locating local web portals. I imagine creating one will be a lot of work, but it will take even more work to get adequate exposure. Still, the project seems compelling to me, since it could form the spring board for many other ventures.

One thing I would like to do is find a cgi script that would enable local business people to create and maintain web pages themselves. The script would need to despense passwords for access, or enable me to create passwords for individual pages, and make the creation and revision of simple web pages very easy. Anyone know of such a script?