# How Do I: Start Using Portlets?

Portlets are the basic building blocks of portal Web applications, and enable the presentation behavior of a subset of an application to be managed as a single unit.

A portlet exists as a set of associated files, mostly XML and JPSs. Portlets can be edited visually in the Design View, and the JSPs can be edited in the in the Design View or the Source Editor.

## Getting Started

View Sample Portlets

Create New Portlets

Related Topics

Portlet Basics