Oracle Portal as site builder

Hi,
We found Oracle Portal very strange!
We used to work with OpenCms Portal, for building our site. This is a Content Management Tool; which enables users to build a site easily. Please look at www.opencms.org.
If user wants to create a page
1- He clicks on new page button.
2- System displays some templates. The user selects one.
3- System shows a WYIWYS screen, User can add his test to page (make it bold, italic, draw table...) or drag & drop some images from image gallery.
4- After editing a page, the user saves the page and close.
5- Site administrator will publishes the page on the net.
After publishing the page the end-user access the site from internet. The page is automatically added to site menu and is displayed in the site structure.
Can we do above if we switch to Oracle Portal?
In other word, can I get Oracle Portal to build a site which looks some like: http://www.alkacon.com or http://www.bp.co.za
Is there some WYIWYS tool in the portal
Regards,
Alireza Fattahi

Have a look on Oracle Instant Portal
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/instant.html
http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/tech/ias/portal/files/introducing_oip_viewlet_swf.html
I think that will help yopu further.
Oracle Instant Portal is immediately available with both Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2.0.1) Standard Edition One, and Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2.0.2) Standard and Enterprise Editions.
Regards,
Ersan

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