The Interface Portlets are the front-end components of the Portal. They provide ways for users to interact with the portal. GateIn 3.2 provides the following Interface Portlets:

• Banner Portlet

  
  This Portlet contains the organization's slogan, logo, and icons.

• HomePage Portlet

  This Portlet is the home page for a portal. The home page is the first page displayed when you visit the site.
  

• Navigation Portlet

  This Portlet provides a navigation bar. A navigation bar is a menu that helps users to visualize the structure of a site and provide links to quickly move from page to page.
  

• Sitemap Portlet

  This Portlet displays a site map page of a web site. It lists pages on a website, typically organized in hierarchical fashion.
  

• Breadcumbs Portlet

  This Portlet displays the 'path' the user has taken from the home page to arrive at the currrent page.
  

• Dashboard Portlet

  This portlet is used for hosting mini-applications known as gadgets. The dashboard uses a variety of graphical effects for displaying, opening, and using gadgets.
  
  Refer to Dashboard Portlet or GUG-Portlets and Gadgets Administration for more information.

• Iframe Portlet

  This Portlet is used to create inline frames (IFrame) elements for a site. An Iframe is a HTML element which can embed another document into a parent HTML document. By using IFrames, embedded data is displayed inside a sub-window of browser.

• Gadget Wrapper Portlet

  This Portlet allows users to view a gadget in canvas mode.
  

• Footer Portlet

  This Portlet provides the footer for a site. This footer provides information or links about the site's author/institutional sponsor, the date of the last revision made to the site, copyright information, comments form and navigational links.