Branding customizes the look of your portal, experience definitions, and communities, through the use of headers, footers, and content canvas portlets. 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.
There are several ways to brand your portal:
The easiest way to apply branding (and control the look of your user interface) is with adaptive tags and adaptive page layouts. There are two example branding portlets that utilize adaptive tags and are installed with the portal: Layout Footer Portlet and Layout Header Portlet. For information on adaptive tags, adaptive page layouts, and the example portlets, see the Oracle WebCenter Interaction UI Customization Guide, which is located on the Oracle Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bea.html.
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 Oracle WebCenter Interaction UI Customization Guide, which is located on the Oracle Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bea.html.
Applying Branding Portlets to Communities, Experience Definitions, and Pages
You apply header and footer portlets at the community template, community, or experience definition level. The community template determines what header and footer are used in the community:
The community template can force the community to use the experience definition branding.
The community template can include its own branding that cannot be overridden in the community. This branding overrides the experience definition branding.
If the community template does not specify any branding restrictions, the community can include its own branding. This branding overrides the experience definition branding.
You apply content canvas portlets at the community page level.
Related Topics
For more information on applying header and footer portlets to experience definitions, see Choose Header, Footer & Style in the Experience Definition Editor.
For more information on applying header and footer portlets to community templates and communities, see the following topics:
For more information on applying content canvas portlets to community pages, see Main Settings (Page).