Phase 2: Building

Installation and setting up

• Setting up and starting process of the development and production environments. Installation of the Hardware and Software required for the development.  
• Installation of GXPortal.

Steps to create and design a portal

• Creating and setting up a portal
  • The first step consists in creating a new portal and setting up the development and production environments to be able to start designing the portal.  

• Backend Security
  • It includes the definition of the security levels to access the different Modules and the user profiles associated to each level.  

• Imagines
  • Based on the images obtained from the graphic design, these are loaded to be used later in the pages design.  

• Channels
  • The channels defined in phase 1 are created.  

• Menus
  • The previously defined menus are created and later they will be published in the pages.  

• Web user profiles
  • The previously defined web users profiles are created.  

• Sources – content suppliers
  • Based on the user groups that have been defined to manage the content, the corresponding Sources are created.  

• Categories
  • The categories are used to classify the content issues. They must be created if you want to classify the content issues and relate them to each other by categories.  

• Content types
  • Based on what was already defined as content structure, the content types are defined.  

• Designing channels templates
  • In this stage, templates must be designed based on the graphic design that was defined and they must be assigned to each corresponding channel.  

• Creating home pages per channel
  • Once the templates have been designed, you will define the home page of each channel based on these templates.  

• Designing the other pages
  • The other portal pages are designed.  

• Associating hyperlinks in the menus
  • Once all pages have been created you must associate each menu option to the page or external hyperlink that will be addressed by it.   

• Entering and publishing content
  • Once you have designed in which pages will the different content types be published, you can start entering and publishing the content while you continue developing the design.  

• Validating Prototypes – Preview
  • With the preview feature you can start validating the portal pages with the users in charge of approving this task. 

• Web Security – Access Control
  • Once the pages design has been closed, you must define what things cannot be accessed by specific user groups, based on the definitions made regarding the portal segmentation.