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Managing Tabs, Pages, and Subsections

This chapter explains how to manage your portal’s layout by adding and modifying tabs, pages, features, and subsections.

Plan Your Layout

Before designing the layout of your portal, you may want to consider the following questions:

  • Who will be the primary users of the portal? Students, faculty, employees?

  • What business offices will be using the portal, if any? Who will be their audience? Applicants, alumni, or others?

  • What academics departments will require their own pages on the portal? Who will be their audience? Students, faculty, applicants and so forth?

  • Will the athletics department need their own pages? Who will be their audience? Coaches, players, fans, site visitors?

  • Who will be administering the site? Do you want only members of your IT staff to configure and maintain the site, or will you assign such responsibilities to others? For example, you could create an Athletics Tab and assign administrative permissions to an Athletic Director.

  • Will you need to create new tabs? Will you need to modify the existing tabs?

  • How can subsections be created and grouped to make efficient use of the tabs?

  • Have you purchased any CRMs? If so, how can these be organized according to specific tabs and pages?