Defining layouts
Portal Designer allows you to alter the layout of portal pages in your site.
You can alter the layout of your site's portal pages by using the Portal Designer. Your portal's layout refers to two different aspects of design:
- Navigation - the hierarchy of your labels, pages, quick links, and URLs
- Content - the arrangement of portlets via rows and columns on the portal pages
Navigation relies on the parent-child relationships that you establish among all of your portal's labels, pages, and URLs.
In this example, the Layout node to shows each page in the portal site and the hierarchy of the rows, columns and portlets within it. The navigation root node, or Content Root, shows the hierarchy of labels, pages, and URLs for your portal site.
A page's active state determines its visibility on the WebSphere® Portal server. By default, a page is active when it is added to the Portal Configuration.
Inactive pages are not visible unless they contain active child nodes.
Related concepts
Using the Outline View
Defining Portal nodes and elements
Using the Outline View
Related tasks
Adding portlets to portal pages
Related information
Using Portal Designer
Editing styles
Working with skins
Working with themes
Customizing portal sites
Using Portal Designer