ATG Portal includes a set of style elements, including templates and images, that you can use to familiarize yourself with the structure and conventions of the PAF. You can change the appearance of your portal pages and insert your own portal branding by making copies and editing the JSP and image files, or by creating your own. Once you are familiar with the style elements, you can create new ones and add them to the default versions. The recommended way for you to brand your portal is to create a new Web application containing your new branded template files.

The default storage location for JSP page template files is in the <ATG10dir>/Portal/paf/starter-portal/paf-dar/portal/templates folder. Note that in many cases there are separate versions of the templates for HTML and for WML. Also note that there is a folder named <ATG10dir>/Portal/templates. The templates in that folder are there for backwards compatibility with ATG Dynamo 5. They should not be used as a basis for page development in the ATG platform. For more detailed information about creating and using style elements, see the Style Administration section in the Portal Administration chapter of this guide and the Customizing Portal Appearance section of the Creating a Custom Portal chapter of the ATG Portal Development Guide.