Online communities have become a rage with more people getting hooked to discussion forums and social media network. With “likeminded” people grouping together for knowledge-sharing, problem-solving and constant participation, demand for online communities and forums have headed north. Liferay portal development tools are one of the best and well-recognized for development of online community portals.

Understanding online community requirements

Online community portal is basically a communication portal with unique set of requirements; requirements based on the area of interest or shared interests. For website owner, the membership growth is on priority list. In other words, there is need to create a kind of connection between members and also invite non-members to join and be part of the larger database.

A solid, robust and all-out powerful portal is required to fulfill aforementioned requirements. Also, scalable and secured architecture becomes necessary to safeguard interests of members or participants. Sometimes, more advanced feature and functionality integrations might be required on existing portal to match the changing dynamics of cloud. Also, it’s bit of a challenge maintaining an online community portal.

If the project is new and yet to slip into design phase, expert and high-skilled services might be required to carry out feasibility studies and feature mapping exercises. Expert developers have complete knowledge on data integration design and customization, plugin integration, performance tuning and other enterprise tasks.

Why depend on Liferay framework?

Liferay is an open source platform that is viable for an enterprise application like online community portal.  It is robust, flexible and offers desired flexibility with easy to use and intuitive interface. With plenty of Liferay portlets and secured back-end to meet with requirements, experts could create an “out-of-the-box” community portal which could in turn help in growth of business with more human participation.

A well-organized and well-planned implementation on the internet platform is required and thus, it is imperative to include advanced capabilities which can give a bold and powerful front-end accompanied by reliable back-end. Liferay portlets like calendar, chat, mail, message boards are provided in Liferay’s collaboration suite.

Agile and smooth Liferay integrations can aid in reducing time and cost. In other words, Liferay based enterprise applications are cost-effective both in terms of development and maintenance. As this technology offers low total cost of ownership, is highly interoperable, offers scalability to support huge user base and could be easily customized as per business requirements, it is imperative to hire Liferay development expert that has experience and expertise to design, develop and maintain an enterprise portal like online community.  

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Now and then, CMS frameworks like Liferay, WordPress are integrating features, functionalities and plugins to make portal user-friendly, interactive and intuitive. CMS framework, Liferay has a collaboration suite of applications - Liferay portlets which can help build community, and also satisfy multiple other requirements of the users on a common platform.

With the help of collaboration suite, a user can think of integrating different applications at ease. Apart from integrating blogs, calendars and mail features, it’s possible to accommodate few more. For instance, message boards, wikis, polls and chat are provided as per the requirements of business. 

Liferay has provided for a plethora of these social collaboration tools so that the user doesn't have to depend on other frameworks to get these integrated on the web or portal. For instance, if you wish to have a calendar integrated on the portal, you can receive a number of benefits with integration. Scheduling the events, alarm alerts via email or text message and more such features are helpful in understanding how your calendar feature will actually work on a Liferay based portal.

To sum up, Liferay portlets simplified most of the work on the single platform with the use of collaboration suite of personal and non-personal applications. 

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Liferay had opened its doors for web developers almost 11 years ago. Since its inception, Liferay Theme Development solutions are being used along with other tools to develop and design website, portal and apps. We received a project from one of our South American client. It is a reputed and leading service provider engaged in providing multiple solutions in networking services. Being part of telecommunication industry, it desired an opportunity management portal which can facilitate a range of services to people, technologies, networks and devices. Customers being the main focus, it needed a portal that can perform different opportunities.

An extensive portfolio of Liferay services was provided by Liferay developers at Elegant MicroWeb. The main aim was to provide users the accessibility to set various opportunities which were already defined through organizational goals for people in the organization (client). Our developers provided Liferay portlets to create list of opportunities on the portal that were displayed according to dates, status etc. The users could view the information by choosing between preferences. Also, it was possible to post remarks, upload documents and attachments once the opportunity was set. There was provision to generate different opportunity reports with Liferay portlet development. For instance, reports related to user lists, user sales etc. could be easily viewed.

This was, perhaps, one of the most comprehensive projects done till date. Liferay developers took every single aspect into consideration while using Liferay themes and portlets on the portal.

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Liferay Theme Development services on a portal were provided by our Liferay developers for a Canadian client. The portal belonged to a well-known asset and infrastructure management solution provider. 

The purpose of developing the portal was to showcase different kinds of services, tools and solutions that help complex asset-intensive organizations improve performance and operational efficiency.  

The solutions are helpful in leveraging the power of cloud computing technologies and offer flexible deployment options like Public cloud, Private cloud and Hybrid cloud based subscriptions and licenses. Our developers had migrated the portal to latest version 6.1. They also provided Liferay themes and an intuitive and dynamic layout to the website. Using the Liferay portlets, the client could easily and dynamically update the page content. CMS template configuration on the portal is carried out using Liferay theme portlets. 

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Liferay has become a most sought after frameworks, helping in content management and customization according to customer preferences. One of the projects that came our way belonged to a client from South American destination, Uruguay. The design and development was a bit of a challenge initially, however, our Liferay developers were able to fulfill the client requirements within time and budget.

Providing Liferay themes and Liferay Portlets development services was on priority. The client desired to have the application work with convenience to achieve proper management of different rural associations. The application was designed to help user manage number of rural associations and its activities. These associations were created according to the choice of province and its respective country. It also helped application management experts create their own customised association homepage.

One of the Liferay features integrated in the application is News Gallery whereby news and events can be published, association activities can be viewed and members can be notified through email on any update. The admin panel can manage various rural associations, users, events, activities and comments on the portal.  At the same time, report generation facility was accommodated whereby reports related to association comments, activities, followers, and consolidated comments are generated with ease. Social media – Facebook API was integrated for displaying Facebook comments. 

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Liferay has become a commonly used technology for the development of website, portal, intranet or content management site. For businesses ranging from small to big, it has become one of the most sought after web solution due to flexibility and robustness of the tools which are used in different configurations and implementations.

Liferay portal development experts can quickly develop and implement a new site, provide the required support for workflow, product or sales channel. There are many ways and options available for your business to expand the web presence, enhance collaboration, adopt team activities and improve market presence with the help of Liferay. Size of portal or business sites, whether small, medium or large, have greater and better exposure when right kind of technology and framework is adopted. 

Liferay portal development serves every purpose; professional, community or organisation. There are plenty of CMS sites created for project management, content, calendars, time billing and inventory.   

Liferay developers can leverage Liferay themes; use the tools to satisfy the need for mobile accessibility, technical and usability requirements to deliver precise and up-to-date information to users or customers.  

We have already done several projects on Liferay for our clients spread far and wide. Each of these clients had their own kind of business, a few small and rest big. Liferay portal development proved to be useful as most of the clients desired to accommodate a store that satisfy their requirements- even the most complex ones...

A reputed BPO company in USA hired us to design and develop Customer portal on one of the most desired and innovative technologies of the time, Liferay. They were interested in a portal that is not only easy to access and navigate but have authentication based portal whereby role based permissions are assigned to the users for accessing the allocated areas. Another challenge was to implement a document management system to integrate a workflow based on multiple types of documents. Incorporating forums, messengers and other interactive tools was also on priority to ease the interaction between internal and external users. 

Our Liferay portal development experts had to complete the tasks within short time. It was decided to analyse the requirements, create a features mapping exercise, before proceeding to present a portal to the audience that is highly interactive, intuitive and user-friendly. In order to achieve this aim, a variety of interfaces were created. Superadmin was developed to create different accounts for various clients. The admin could configure, manage their customers portals, carry out branding and undertake other activities. At the same time, Liferay developers developed various portlets for proper implementation of tasks on the portal. A document management portlet with workflow management and notification capabilities was developed. Also, report center portlet was integrated to enable clients to publish variety of reports.  

We employed all possible resources to get the desired output on the Liferay Portal Development framework. Everything was done within the budget and time. If you want to know more on this project or how Liferay was implemented or what was actually done to get the results, check out this Liferay Case Study.