About Branding with Header and Footer Portlets
Branding portlets customize
the look of your portal through the use of headers and footers. For
example, you probably want to add your company logo and tagline to
the header and you might want to add contact information or copyrights
to the footer.
Note: The easiest way to apply branding (and control the look of your
user interface) is with adaptive page layouts, which are then applied
through experience definitions.
There are several ways to brand your portal:
There are two example branding portlets that utilize adaptive
tags and are installed with the portal: Layout Footer Portlet and
Layout Header Portlet. For more information on adaptive tags and the
example portlets, see the Adaptive Page Layouts section of the AquaLogic User Interaction Development Guide.
- You can also create your own custom branding portlets. There are
two example branding portlets that are installed with the portal:
Classic Footer Portlet and Classic Header Portlet. For information
on creating custom branding portlets, see the AquaLogic User
Interaction Development Guide.
- With your AquaLogic Interaction license, you can download and
install AquaLogic Interaction Publisher, which provides three branding
portlet templates that enable you to customize the look and feel of
experience definitions and communities: Header Portlet, Footer Portlet,
and Content Canvas. You create and configure customized branding portlets
from these portlet templates. You can customize the properties, HTML,
and default values for the portlet. For information on creating Publisher
branding portlets, see the Administrator Guide for AquaLogic
Interaction Publisher or the Publisher online help.
- About Header and Footer Portlet PrecedenceYou apply header and footer portlets at the community template, community, or experience definition level. The community template settings determine what header and footer are used in the community.
