Chapter 1. The Liferay difference
Figure 1.1. Liferay contains many built-in applications called portlets. If there are some you’ll never use, you can disable them. You can also write and deploy your own portlets. These custom portlets are indistinguishable from portlets that ship with Liferay Portal.
Figure 1.2. Liferay Portal 6, as it looks the first time you start it. It presents a basic interface at first, but as you’ll see, you can easily jazz it up.
Figure 1.3. The Dockbar appears when you log in. Hovering the mouse over the Add menu in the Dockbar opens a drop-down menu. To see a full list of available applications, choose More.
Figure 1.4. Most of the applications have been added. This screen shot was taken while dragging the Wiki application into the column on the right.
Figure 1.5. Every application in Liferay that uses the Social API can capture activities unique to that application. The Activities portlet displays those activities. Did you really create a new wiki page?
Figure 1.6. The Web Content Display portlet is added, but it has no content (yet). You’ll remedy that quickly.
Figure 1.7. Entering content in Liferay’s CMS
Figure 1.8. Accessing the same folders in Document Library in the operating system via WebDAV or using the browser interface
Figure 1.9. Liferay with a custom theme applied. This is just one of many themes in Liferay’s community repository.