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Making of MetroSphere, Part 24: Giving the user control - the ultimate portal theme

Now on developerWorks: Making of MetroSphere, Part 24: Giving the user control - the ultimate portal theme: The heart of the MetroSphere site is the community weblog, but we also want to give users the ability to create pages that reflect their own personalities. Portal enables an administrator to add a new theme to the site, but because allowing users to add a new theme involves unacceptable security risks, built-in capabilities limit user control to selecting from available themes. This tutorial explains how to give users much of the same power they would have by creating a new theme without actually creating one.