Your questions is a mix of several questions, you should make it clearer if you want
answers.
To create a portal you should read the documentations. You can use the XML descriptors or
the management portlet.
To configure the layout see the reference documentation again and see the embedded
samples.
About your classcast exceptions we would need more details.
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