I would like to deploy LifeRay such that the top-level page is structured like this:
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TOP-BANNER (logo, search box etc.)
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LEFT COLUMN *** | Free-form
(FIXED - e.g. * | User Portlets
Navigation **** | Area
Portlet) ****** |
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**** Copyright Notice ****
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(See the attachment for a better "picture")
A typical user would be allowed to freely manipulate the center-right area of the page, such as to add [non-admin] portlets, close the existing ones, minimize/maximize them etc., but unable to change anything on the center-left, top or bottom areas (except from typing into whatever text boxes and clicking onto whatever buttons or links are included, of course). The top area would contain, for instance, a logo, a bread-crumbs portlet and a search box, the center-left - a Navigation Portlet, a sign-in portlet etc., while the bottom would contain a copyright notice, "about us" etc.
Any ideas how I could do this? One thing that crossed my mind is to "block" the portlets in those columns, but I couldn't possibly get that to work. I cannot make a portlet on a [guest] page to have no configuration button if I still want the user to have rights to update/add to the page. Dunno if that's a feature or a bug.
Thank you and all ideas will be appreciated.
