More useful information

In this chapter, we have looked at what Liferay can do for your corporate intranet, and we have briefly seen why it's a good choice.

If you want more background information on Liferay, the best place to start is the Liferay corporate website (http://www.liferay.com) itself. You can find the latest news and events, various training programs offered worldwide, presentations, demonstrations, and hosted trials. More interestingly, Liferay eats its own dog food; corporate websites with forums (called message boards), blogs, and wikis are built by Liferay using its own products. It is a real demo for the Liferay Portal.

Liferay is 100 percent open source and all downloads are available from the Liferay Portal website (http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/portal) and the SourceForge website at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/files. The source code repository is available at http://svn.liferay.com/repos/public (credentials the username is Guest and no password) and Github (https://github.com/liferay), and source code can be explored at http://svn.liferay.com.

Liferay's website wiki (http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/wiki) contains documentation such as a tutorial, user guide, developer guide, administrator guide, roadmap, and more.

Liferay's website discussion forums can be accessed at http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/forums and the blogs at http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/blogs. The road map can be found at http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/RoadMap. The official plugins are available from http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/official_plugins.

The community plugins are available from http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/community_plugins. They are the best places to share your thoughts, to get tips and tricks about Liferay implementation, to examine the road map, and to use and contribute community plugins.

If you would like to file a bug or know more about the fixes in a specific release, then you should visit the bug tracking system at http://issues.liferay.com/.

Alloy UI Forms is a set of taglibs built on top of the Alloy UI JavaScript + CSS framework. For more information about the framework, you can visit: http://alloy.liferay.com. CSS3, CSS level 3, is available from http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work. A detailed description of HTML5 is available from http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html.YUI 3 is Yahoo!'s next-generation JavaScript and CSS library at http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/.