three things a portal must have:

1.color manage - why to mess around with , style.css and template.php , the color manage should be from admin.

2.guest book - visitors book to sign in

3.blocks double - maybe i need 2 articles section , so every block could be dublicate

4.random logo !

1. A simple template editor is almost ready

2. I'll do it

3. You can enable the same block as many times as you want

4. That depends only from the template

thanks , i am not webmaster or a programer and it will help a lot for all of the future users.