Last month I was over at the Oracle offices in Reading; redeveloping the Avitek Sample Portal working to achieve a design that would be more appealing to future clients and help show the potential of what could be done with WebCenter.
We all know that Oracle always provide powerful functionality over aesthetics and a good interface design.
Those sales guys must have a pretty hard job selling Webcenter over Sharepoint - I mean if you weren’t technically minded and Microsoft first came in and did a demo of sharepoint and then Oracle came in and demo`d Webcenter - I know who I`d choose purely on looks.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any screens of the Avitek development, but here are a few of a reskin of spaces which I used as a bases for the Avitek development.
So whats next for me and Webcenter.. Well, I have been fortunate to be given a copy of Webcenter 11g Handbook - so its been used for weekend and bed time reading; there’s alot of good guides in it. A full review on this will be coming soon, but it’s definitely got to be a book on your shelf. During February, I’ve been taken on to assist migration of a Sharepoint project to Webcenter - this is going to be my first client project with Webcenter - its going to be good and cant wait to see the challenges that lie ahead of me.. Keep an eye out and I`ll let you know how it goes.

5 Responses for "Blog:: Investing time into Webcenter and a new skin"
Hi John,
It looks pretty good. I’m trying to discover the mapping between bea weblogic portal graphic design and webcenter. I’m wondering if the handbook may help me to achieve that.
Regards
Fabián
The webcenter services section should help you although, I havent seen any direct examples yet on integration of BEA to webcenter 11g.
Oracle WebCenter Services 11g provides a comprehensive set of standards-based components that enrich existing portals and Web sites with the industry’s most complete and open set of Enterprise 2.0 capabilities. These Enterprise 2.0 services include social computing services, personal productivity services, online awareness and communications, content integration, and Web analytics. Oracle WebCenter Services 11g works with all Oracle portal offerings and enables organizations to enrich their current portals and Web sites to empower their end users with Enterprises 2.0 services that work with their existing information systems.
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Great work john ….
I trying to override the style of IDs that are generated like “T:wc_glb:gtbppgl3″ , How to write it in the css.
Thanks
Don`t even try to overwrite the IDs - they are unique and are randomly generated and cannot be used within the CSS as far as I know.
What are you trying to do? - ps checkout the latest skin.
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