Liferay 6 Beginners Guide, a Book on Liferay Portal #

Quick and easy techniques to build, deploy and maintain your own Liferay portal

Sample Chapter

Overview #

• Get Liferay portal running on your own computer
• Set up a fully-fledged site with Liferay portal
• Populate your site with web content
• Enrich online experience with communities
• Open an online store with Liferay portlets

Details #

Liferay portal is a leading horizontal portal product. It has gained more and more popularity in years of upgrading. Many influential sites have been implemented with or switched to the Liferay portal. More and more Liferay developers are needed in the IT industry. There is no wonder that many IT engineers have picked up Liferay portal and started learning it. Liferay trainings are very welcome offered by Liferay, Inc. and its partners, including Cignex Datamatics Corporation.

The idea of writing this “Liferay 6 Beginners Guide” book has been conceived in this background. This book will introduce to a reader the set-up of a Liferay portal instance, Liferay portal administration and out-of-the-box portlets of Liferay. It will impart Liferay knowledge step by step with hands-on activities for the reader.

The book has advantages over other books about Liferay on the market. It introduces the latest Liferay features and the latest technologies used by Liferay.

Liferay portal is a mature portal technology. As more and more clients are using it, both would-be Liferay developers and clients’ system administrators will need this book. They will benefit from it by reading it.

Liferay portal is user-friendly. Its concepts of theme, layout and portlet make it very flexible to change the content and update the look-and-feel of a web page. Its web content portlet and web content display portlet can be used to publish a page or even a site without any programming skills.

By using Liferay portal, a client can both save money and increase sale. It will ultimately mean increased profit.

What you will learn from this book #

By reading this book, you will learn the the following important things:

• Latest concepts and technologies in information industry
• It is a joyful trip to learn Liferay portal
• You find that you like Liferay
• Liferay portal can meet your IT requirements
• You are now confident in yourself about using the Liferay portal product

Approach #

This book will walk through the process of setting up a Liferay portal application for an imagined neighbourhood.

People belonging to this neighbourhood can register as members. There will be pages to help the newcomers who have just bought houses in this neighbourhood. There will be applications for the neighbours to advertise parties to be held. There will also be portal pages to tell the neighbours how to get services including gardening, auto repair and grocery.

Whom is this book written for #

This book is targeted at people who have programming experience yet have not worked with Liferay portal or a portal. It focuses on configuration of Liferay portal. Only properties files and XML are involved. There is no Java coding or customization required.

Table of Contents #

• Chapter 1: Planning Your Portal
• Chapter 2: Installing a Liferay Portal Instance
• Chapter 3: Understanding Portal Basics and Theming
• Chapter 4: Tips and Tricks-Advanced Configuration
• Chapter 5: Building your First Liferay Site
• Chapter 6: Managing Pages, Users, and Permissions
• Chapter 7: Creating and Publishing Content
• Chapter 8: Exploring Communities
• Chapter 9: Setting up an Online Shop
• Chapter 10: Liferay Server Administration