Design and setting up a portal site
Overview
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 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.To view changes without restarting the server, follow the steps described in the Enable automatic JSP reloading section.
The following list shows which themes are available with and supported by WebSphere Portal v7.0:
Page Builder theme Shipped with the portal and deployed as the portal default theme. Breadcrumb - Free Form Layout
Breadcrumb - Column LayoutShipped with the portal and supported, but not installed. To be able to use these themes, run the configuration task... deploy-portal-mashup-ui
Tab Menu - Page Builder theme
Web2 themeShipped with the portal and supported, but not installed. To be able to use these themes, you need to deploy them. They are located under... PORTAL_HOME/installer/wp.ear/installableApps/wps_theme.ear/wps_theme.war/themes/html
IBM theme and other themes from portal v6.0.x Supported, but not shipped with portal v7.0.
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Set up a portal site