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LayoutTool
Layout Tool
The tool is intended to make building portal pages easier for site admin. The content provided by different sources it is possible to lay on the page in different ways.
Column Layout
Columns layout is usual to see on portals. Left and right columns with helper information are surrounding content. Portals can have more columns (especially entry pages). Content inside column can be put in blocks following each other.
Grid Layouts
Sometimes the grid layout is proper solution for vertical positioning related information into logical rows. This layout could be suitable if content is composed with geometrically different-sized blocks (in the case block should occupy several cells of the grid).
Floating layouts
Related information can be injected into content into floating blocks of related information.
Multipage layout
CMFPortlets? are employing multipage layouts. These layouts are heavily used by My.Yahoo and My.Netscape portals.
The PageTemplate? could just make use of precreated and preconfigured layouts stored into Layout Tool. Generation of layout could be flexible, scriptable and automated. Security machinery could play here role as well.
Layout Tool should use PortletTool? at the most. My vision of PortletTool? is as ContentTool, providing different flavous of content.