the one who will accomplish this project using vb .net will recieve a great bonus and a great present from me personaly and the admnistration of the site ...
we dont care if the code you ll use is recreated or its embled code we just want a working project ...
wish you best of luck
so you need to create a portal...with the current requirements..

1) a registration form with restriction to same usernames and mails.
2)an rss to get knews from any site u want..
3) a msg board that will be like a forum interface..
4)a in build java chat that will be conected to the database and when the user is pressing to enter the chat it will get him with his username in the portal imidiatly.
5)a weather tab to be running ..most likely uden the domain name....
6) administrator panel to post msg groups etc like a forum works..
7)a phonebook witch every user will be entering and store numbers and notes..
avatars pm profiles almost a whole forum..
but to work as a web development ..project and with great connection with the mysql or sql database..