Add column to liferay

How can I add 'areas' to a liferay site that applications can be displayed in? I current开发者_开发问答ly have a 3 column layout (created though the UI) and I need to add a footer below.

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You can create custom layouts in Liferay.

See http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Layout+Template

A footer in Liferay is something that you'd usually place in a Liferay theme unless you actually want to be able to place portlets in the footer and change them regularly. If you plan to change them often, a custom layout template can be an option, but if you just want a couple of fixed portlets in the footer you can embed them in a theme.

Looking to your question it seems like you want to embed portlets(applications) in footer. To make it working you will have to create a theme and in that modify code of portal_normal.vm file.

Add your portlet(application) in footer section and it will be available across your site.

#set ($VOID = $velocityPortletPreferences.setValue('display-style', '1'))
#set ($VOID = $velocityPortletPreferences.setValue('portlet-setup-show-borders', 'false'))
#set ($instanceId = 'E3j7')
#set ($myPortletId = "73_INSTANCE_${instanceId}")$theme.runtime($myPortletId, '', $velocityPortletPreferences.toString())
#set ($VOID = $velocityPortletPreferences.reset())

You can specify values to your app that will automatically reflect when your theme will be hot deployed.