Set up a portal site
Set up a portal site includes customizing the portal's look-and-feel, creating pages, setting up search, and adding content to the site. Themes are used to customize the portal's look-and-feel. Out-of-the-box templates and the site wizard can help you setup the portal site faster. You can add wikis and blogs to site and let users tag and rate content on site.
- Site wizard, sample sites, and templates
WebSphere Portal includes a site wizard, sample sites, templates and more to make site creation fast and easy. Before you start creating site, get familiar with the out-of-the-box samples and learn more about the site wizard.
Before customizing the portal site, understand the underlying structure of the portal.
Read about the different tasks associated with the Manage Pages portlet.
Page creation and customization is easier than ever before. You can create a page with a single click by using the Page Builder theme. Users can use the portal Page Builder feature to quickly and create, customize, and share pages with teammates and community members. They can add content to these pages using a variety of sources made available on the content catalog, such as portal portlets and shared pages. Other custom content sources that you can configure include Mashup Center feeds, widgets, and pages, and IBM Lotus Connections activities, communities, and social bookmarks.
The page customizer contains portlets for editing the layout, content, and appearance of pages. It also provides the Wires portlet, which allows users to set up connections between cooperative portlets on a page, and the Locks portlet, which allows users to lock and unlock containers and container content. You can configure the settings for these portlets to show a certain set of functions, restricting basic users from performing more advanced tasks.
The Portlet Palette provides you with a collection of portlets that you can drag to the page for quick and easy page customization.
Use wires to exchange information or actions between portlets.
Design and setting up a portal site
WebSphere Portal 7 provides improved page builder and improved client side rendering and has a new default portal theme, the Page Builder theme. Themes define how the portal site will look. After installation, a default theme is deployed and you can either customize that theme or create own. The new themes approach introduced in 7 involves less editing of JSPs and allows you to mix iWidgets and portlets on the same portal page and take advantage of both client side and server side rendering mode. WebSphere Portal 7 continues to support other themes, including custom themes. If you have an existing portal site you can continue to use existing themes or you can migrate themes to the new standard.
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