Drupal portal, create user customizable widgets on homepage

I'd like to have opinions on 开发者_StackOverflowhow to create a structure of widgets on a portal using drupal, so that the user can customize his widgets. In particular he should be able to choose to hide or move them around, and of course the widgets will be user specific.

My question is generic, how to approach this? Is there any interesting module for drupal that might help?

Thanks

Panels module should help : http://drupal.org/project/panels

Take a look at the Dashboard module or the Homebox module. Both of these allow for custom "dashboards" that users can customize with "widgets".