Has anyone tried redesigning SAS Information Delivery Portal?

[ThomasPalm]

Hi.

We have an original looking SAS Information Delivery Portal, with tabs down the left side, and a small "logo" on top of the page. So 1990!

Mostly used to run stored processes and view pre-rendered html-output/pdf-output.

Has anyone ever tried redesigning this look?

What I'm trying to accomplish is;

- a modern look

- use background processing/ajax queries

- keep the security-settings and the pages from the portal

Does anyone have any thoughts on this matter?

Should I try and create a new theme(?) for the portal - is it possible with the new ideas in mind?

Should I create a new web-page, served from a web-server, which reads metadata and serves up a hole new menu-system?

Ideas, thoughts, anything is welcome.

I'm pretty sure I didn't get all aspects of my challenge described, so if anything is unclear, I'll be happy to clarify.

Thomas