The latest trend...
... in enterprise portal design is software that arranges pages in modular form, and allows the personalization of those modules.
This approach marries technology, graphic design and information design. The verb "marry" is intentional, because marriage is a mix of things you love and things you have to put up with.
This portal / portlet approach is often used to automate page
construction. Be advised, however, that automatic news generation is a pale
substitute for a well-connected human editor.
We will look at the portal / portlet trend in detail a little later.