This wiki addresses considerations for the creation of external-facing Web sites utilizing IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1.5. We focus on areas related to external facing Web sites versus topics that might apply to only internal-facing sites.
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Through out this wiki we have included examples, screen captures and code samples based on various scenarios.
The initial structure and content of this wiki was built by a team of experts from around the world.
Bart Jacob
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Bart Jacob is a Senior Consulting IT Specialist at the IBM International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center. He has over 25 years of experience providing technical support across a variety of IBM products and technologies, including communications, object oriented software development, and systems management. He joined the ITSO in 1989, where he has been writing IBM Redbooks publications and creating and teaching workshops around the world on a variety of topics. He holds a Masters degree in Numerical Analysis from Syracuse University.
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Adam de Leeuw
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Adam de Leeuw is an accredited senior IT specialist with 12 years experience. He works in IBM Software Services for WebSphere at IBM Hursley in the UK and provides consultancy on client technologies including WebSphere Portal, Web 2.0 and Lotus Expeditor.
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Ali Beklen
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Ali Beklen is a Software IT Architect working for IBM Turkey. He is experienced on designing integration solutions and he is Open Group Certified IT Specialist on collaboration solutions. Ali holds a Master of Computer Engineering degree from Maltepe University in Istanbul (Turkey).
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David Axinn
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David Axinn is a Certified IT Specialist with IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal Technical Sales in Washington, DC. He has deep technical expertise and a strong business understanding of Lotus strategy, portfolio and related solutions. His product focus includes WebSphere Portal, Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Sametime and Lotus Notes / Domino, and he has lead many projects to success in this area.
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Fanie Korff
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Fanie Korff has been involved in the IT industry as a Web development specialist and Senior IT consultant for the past 12 years. His tasks and responsibilities have covered WebSphere Portal and Web Content Management (WCM).
Fanie is currently a Senior WCM Consultant at UK Business Partner Open Logic, UK leaders in WebSphere Portal . Over the past six years Fanie has worked as a specialist across a number of industries, implementing global solutions on the IBM WebSphere Portal platform. These have included installation, configuration, information architecture, development, training, usability and accessibility features as well as functionality of Web Content Management.
At Open Logic, Fanie has worked with a variety of customers including Cardiff University, Compass Group and The University of London.
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Graham Wallace
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Graham has a very strong background in designing usable user interfaces particularly in websites. His speciality is web usability and accessibility, where he has worked on various sites over the past 5 years. He has recently started working for UK Business Partner Open Logic.
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Janice Taylor
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Janice Taylor is a Certified Senior IT Specialist within the Global Solution Center (GSC) in Coppell, TX. She provides technical sales support (TSS) for WebSphere Portal, Rational Team Concert, and Rational Rhapsody. She has been focused on designing and developing innovative, cross-brand, cross-plaftform pre-sales portal solutions across all sectors for over six years.
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JP Thambuganipalle
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JayaPrasad (JP) Thambuganipalle is a Premium Support Manager (PSM) for Websphere Portal and prior to becoming a PSM, JP was a lead portal architect in IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL). Prior to joining IBM, JP worked with leading global investment and/or retails banks as an infrastructure specialist/architect.
JP has presented at various IBM technical conferences.
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Projjwal Saha
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Projjwal Saha is a Software Engineer as a part of Software Group, based in India Software Labs, Gurgaon. He has worked in IBM for over 4 years. He has experience in development and testing of various Portal and Collaboration suite of products. He has also worked as a support engineer for WebSphere Portal 5.x - 6.0.x to customers worldwide and develop prototypes as per customers requirements.
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Rajaguru Balagurusamy
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Rajaguru Balagurusamy is an IT Specialist with IBM India Software Labs. He specializes in IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Lotus Forms, IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory, and J2EE development. He began his career as a WebSphere Portal and J2EE developer. In his current role, he has been helping customer in developing Portal using IBM WebSphere Portal Server and development of e-Forms using IBM Lotus Forms. Rajaguru has presented sessions at various IBM Lotus Technical Conferences. He also published article for DeveloperWorks that explains the various ways that you can integrate Lotus Forms with Lotus Domino and details of the benefits that integration brings. He also got certified in IBM WebSphere Portal Application Development.
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Raul Munoz Serrano
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Raul Munoz Serrano is an Advisory IT Specialist in IBM Software Group. He lives in the beatiful city of Madrid, Spain. He has been working with Lotus technologies for ten years, starting with the Domino family of products and moving to Portal in the early Portal 4.0 days. He likes playing with his children and running long distances from time to time.
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Special thanks to the following people for their support and contributions to this project:
David W. Nixon