Liferay Portal 6.2 Enterprise Intranets

Building the Palm Tree Publications site

Let's create a site for our example with the name Palm Tree, which will help us understand the portal concept clearly.

Follow these steps to create a new site:

1. Click on the Admin link; a drop-down menu will appear (see Figure 2.3).
2. Click on Control Panel and select Sites.
3. Now, click on Add and select Blank Site.
4. Fill in the site name and site description keeping all other settings default. We will be discussing this in detail in the coming chapters.
5. Finally, click on the Save button. The Palm Tree site is created successfully and it will redirect to the site admin page.
   

   Figure 2.8: Control Panel sites

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