Is your portal layout really cool?

Hi,
I am preparing a portal presentation and I would like to include some really cool examples of layout.
If you thing that your portal is cool, you can send me a screenshot with your portal welcome page. (please see my email in my profile)
If there are issues in showing company logos etc, please note and I will anonymize it.
As a "thank you bonus for your help", I will put all screenshots in a powerpoint and send it to back to all contributors who emailed me.
During my projects, I have seen some very impressive and some very unusual attempts in layout. I think this can be very interesting.
Please, do not misunderstand me. I don"t want to solicite portal graphics, I am curious about pushing the limits of portal design.
Thanks
hs

Hi Holger,
I appreciate your attempt to collect cool portal layouts or themes.
Unfortunately I have no customized layout at hand.
Maybe the idea is worth a blog or a wiki page here at sdn. I thought very often about some kind of "portal theme contest".
Any more supporters here at sdn? Any comments from SAP?
Greetings,
Carsten
P.S: I'm very very interested in your resulting ppt. Maybe I will try to create a new portal layout just for you!

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Hi Experts,
Using SAP EP 7.0 SPS 18 and NWDS 7.0.18
I downloaded the par file com.sap.portal.layouts.framework because I wanted to increase the width of the detailed navigation panel. I imported it into NWDS and in the WAandNavPanel.jsp I modified this line
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Regards,
Marshall.

Hi Marshall,
Just a couple of notes for you:
Changing the SAP namespace to your own/client namespace is a good idea, though you'll need to copy all referenced Portal objects if possible. In addition, every support pack or patch will require you to recreate this PAR file using the original SAP source as the underlying code may have changed.
All that said, the easiest way to check out a change is to make a change directly to the PAR file and upload. I do this when working with a local Portal install (not the development one).
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Regards,
Matt
ps. I hope you've solved this by now...Otherwise ask your friendly SAP expert (who may be handy) how to do it. Alternatively, publish exactly the change you're making and we can review it.

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Placehoder Controls | PlaceHolder Controls
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |
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| | |
Not in my computer
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Micky,
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