posted 8 years ago
Portals are almost by their very definition "cluttery". A Portal isn't something you use to display pretty web pages like it was Drupal or something, it's a way of presenting "dashboards" where lots of probably-unrelated items are presented on a single "at-a-glance" display. Accent on "lots". As in "clutter".
The user/admin can customized their dashboard to select what items they want to follow, and to a limited extent, where on the display the item will be placed. But the actual "page" is just a scaffold to hold them.
You can do stuff with CSS to change the appearance somewhat, but you're still limited in that you mustn't break the functionality just because you don't like the appearance.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.