We already have a Sharepoint portal. So, is it a good idea to have a separate WSS site and link to it from Sharepoint portal?
(HS) It all depends on your taxonomy, your structure of your site and organization. If the library will be the only thing on the WSS site and you have everything else on a portal, I think the transition between the two could be rather jarring and won’t make sense to the end user since navigation is different and the page layout differs slightly.
If we link the portal to WSS site, is it possible to make the User interface uniform?
(HS) To a point. You can brand both a portal and WSS site and the results can be very similar, but portal and WSS use different navigation systems and that will stand out.
Also, can we create the WSS site in the same portal site?
(HS) I am a little confused what you mean by this, but you can create WSS sites “within” a portal (they are often referred to as Team Sites) in the Sites area. But technically the WSS sites are there own sites, they don’t reside within the portal nor can the portal interface (header, nav, etc) be wrapped around the content of a WSS site and not have the WSS header and nav.
You could potentially use the Web Capture Web Part (www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx) to only show the library from a WSS site in a portal page… but I have not done this personally so I am not sure of the possibility or results.