Designing a portal site
WebSphere Portal provides a predefined page that is available to use immediately after the product is installed and started. Users can change the appearance and layout by using the Web-based user interface to switch to other predefined visual elements and layouts that are provided by WebSphere Portal.
This section describes how to further customize the pages to conform to the appearance and requirements of your organization Web site, including adding, removing, or changing text, colors, images, links, borders, and even the layout of the page. Much of this work involves editing the JSPs and the CSS files that provide the HTML markup and visual styles for screens, themes, and skins.
To view your changes without restarting the server, follow the steps described in the Enabling automatic JSP reloading section.