Re: WHat to download/use to start a web portal

hmmmm... thank you. points well made. Its donning on me slowly that the game in this area is the appearance. Hours are going to be spent designing appearance.

"All hat, no cattle" springs to mind.

Companies willingly pay for this work, so once again, I am wrong in my approach and attitude.

Back to the Attitude Adjustment Hour....



Walden H. Leverich wrote:

I would like a tool that allows me to layout the portal and then

develop

pieces to fit in it.

Forgive me, I don't remember your web-development skill level. If it's
not great I would _not_ start with a portal-like product. Portals can be
great (I'm not sold on them, but many are). However, to do their magic
(skinning, pluggable modules, drag/drop design, etc.) they can have some
_very_ complex code in them, both on the client-side and the
server-side. That's why things like WebSphere Portal and Sharepoint
aren't simple deployments. I would strongly suggest that you start w/a
simple web-app where you can control all the parts.

If I misunderstood your request, and you're looking to do something more
on the personal "home page" side of the world, then DotNetNuke is nice
from the .Net side, PHPNuke, on the PHP side and I've heard great things
about Joomla, but I've not heard it. These will allow you to deploy nice
portals, but developing for them requires that you understand how they
work.

-Walden