Customizing portal sites

Rational Developer allows you to edit both the graphic design and portlet layout within your portal.

 

Getting started with Portal Designer

Portal Designer is the workbench interface that you see upon opening a portal project. For more information, refer to Using Portal Designer.

 

Defining a layout

Using Portal Designer, you can alter the layout of a portal page. The layout refers to the number of content areas within a page and the number of portlets within those content areas. Page content includes rows, columns, URLs and portlets. For more information, refer to Defining layouts.

Once you publish your project to the Portal server, Portal administrators can use the admin portlets to give site users permission to edit the page layout.

 

Working with themes and skins

The Rational Developer installation includes prefabricated themes and skins. Use these for your site, or use them to create new themes and skins that you can edit to create a unique appearance for your site.

There are also styles associated with each theme and skin. For more information, refer to Editing styles

• Working with themes

• Working with skins

 

Adding portlets to portal pages

A portlet, or group of portlets, makes up the informative content of your portal pages. Use columns and rows to create containers where you can insert portlets.

• Adding portlets to portal pages

 

Related tasks

Creating portal projects
Testing, debugging, or profiling portals