What i'm saying is, by default, the structure of the pages in the portal is:
___
| | |
|left | center |
|___|___|
That's what i understand according to the tag region displayed in the
default-portal.xml.
| page
| page-namecache test/page-name
|
please be careful with the term you are using. I'm still confused by your use
of 'portlet', but anyway: I hope I got it now.
You can have a layout for the entire portal, but you can overwrite it for
individual pages via page properties. You can define a jsp that does your
layout with top,
not sure, but I think your definition of layout is probably different from
mine, so I don't know if what I can tell you makes sense to you.
Let's try anyway:
The layout is the jsp that renders the returned markup (the entire page). So it
is the part that creates the HTML, TITLE, BODY ,