Designing and setting up a portal site

HCL DX 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 your portal site will look. After installation, a default theme is deployed and you can either customize that theme or create your 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 your custom themes. If you have an existing portal site you can continue to use your existing themes or you can migrate your themes to the new standard.

Tip: To view your changes without restarting the server, follow the steps described in the Enabling automatic JSP reloading section.
The following list shows which themes are available with and supported by HCL DX Portal Version 8.5:
Page Builder theme
This theme is shipped with the portal and deployed as the portal default theme.
Breadcrumb - Free Form Layout
Breadcrumb - Column Layout
These themes are shipped with the portal and supported, but not installed. To be able to use these themes, you need to run the configuration task deploy-portal-mashup-ui .
Tab menu - Page Builder theme
Portal Web2 theme
These themes are shipped with the portal and supported, but not installed. To be able to use these themes, you need to deploy them. They are located under the following directory: PortalServer_root/installer/wp.ear/installableApps/wps_theme.ear/wps_theme.war/themes/html
IBM theme
Other themes from portal V 6.0.x
These themes are also supported, but they are not shipped with portal Version 8.5.
Your own custom themes