 | Level: Intermediate Nicholas Chase (nicholas@nicholaschase.com), President, Chase and Chase, Inc.
26 Jun 2003 Look and feel are important in Web portal design. Learn how to develop themes -- which provide the look and feel for a group of pages -- and skins -- which provide the look and feel for portlets -- in this tutorial from the MetroSphere team. Topics covered include the creation of a new template theme, installing the new theme, adding WebSphere Portal functionality to the theme, accessing language-dependent text, creating URLs within WebSphere Portal, and creating and installing new skins.
Prerequisites
No hard-core programming is required, but an understanding of JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology will be helpful. (If you've never seen JSP pages before, Part 12 of this series, Hands-on intro to JSP technology: Creating a community weblog will get you up-to-speed.) You must also be familiar with HTML. To follow along with the tutorial, you must have the following tools installed and working properly:
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WebSphere Portal v4.x. Examples for this tutorial were built using WebSphere Portal - Enable, but with the exception of some navigational issues (which are clearly marked), the directions will work with all varieties of Portal's version 4.x.
- A text editor. All themes are created out of JavaServer Pages components, which are simply text files. You can also use an IDE such as IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, which is bundled with Portal.
System requirements
None.
Duration
Under two hours
Formats html, pdf
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