Portlet display on portable computing devices

A portal page may be displayed in the active area of a portable computing device display. The portable computing device may receive display data that includes original page display instructions specifying how to display a plurality of portlets within a common page. The personal computing device may identify an initial portlet of the plurality of portlets and remove portlets, other than the initial portlet, from the original page display instructions to produce modified page display instructions having at least one transition instruction. The personal computing device may scale, based upon the modified page display instructions, the initial portlet to render within the active display area; and render, based upon the scaled initial portlet, a web page within the active display area.