# How Do I: Start Using Portal?

Portal provides a framework for surfacing your applications in a portal interface, developing personalization and campaigns, tracking user behavior in your portals, and managing users and groups, content, and portal resources, among other things.

While there are many tasks involved in portal development and administration, there are a few things you can do to get started and familiarize yourself with the portal environment.

To start using portal

1. Complete the Portal Tutorials in WebLogic Workshop Platform Edition.
2. Complete the tutorials in the WebLogic Administration Portal. To access the tutorials:
   1. Open the sample portal application (<BEA_HOME>\<WEBLOGIC_HOME>\samples\portal\portalApp\portalApp.work) in WebLogic Workshop Platform edition.
   2. Start the server on your machine. Choose Tools-->WebLogic Server-->Start WebLogic Server.
   3. When the server has started, choose Portal-->Portal Administration.
   4. When the WebLogic Administration Portal login page appears, log in. The default login is weblogic/weblogic.
   5. When the main page appears, click Show Help in the upper right corner.
   6. In the Help window that appears, click the Tutorials tab and complete the tutorials.
3. View the Portal Samples to see complete portal applications.
4. Create your own portal development environment. See Creating a Portal Application and Portal Web Project and Developing Portal Applications.
5. See the topics in Developing Personalized Applications for instructions on building personalization, campaign, and behavior tracking functionality that you can surface in a portal interface.

Related Topics

What is a Portal?

Developing Portal Applications

Building Portlets