Creating new skins

Use the New Skin wizard to create customized skins for your project.

To create a skin, do the following:

  1. In the Project Explorer, right-click the name of your portal project.
  2. From the pop-up menu, select New > Skin. The New Skin wizard will appear.
  3. On the New Skin page, enter a title for your skin. Do not use spaces in the title you create for your skin. The title will use the default language for the Portal. After you complete the wizard, you can use the skin Properties view to enter titles for other languages.
    Note: The default unique name and folder name is generated from the title for the default language. If the default language of your portal is the language using DBCS characters, do one of the following:
    • Enter the title using SBCS only. After you complete the wizard, use the Properties view to enter the DBCS title, or
    • Enter the title using DBCS, then type the unique name and folder name in SBCS.
  4. Select a source skin thumbnail; then click Next.
  5. In the Select Themes page, place a check mark next to the themes that you want to use this new skin; then click Finish.

In the Project Explorer, look in Dynamic Web Projects > [portalproject] > Skins to see your new skin folder.

In order to set a skin as the default skin for any given theme, you need to go to the Properties view for the theme, and set it as shown in the image below.
Properties view for the WebSphere theme

Related tasks
Defining layouts
Working with skins
Changing skins
Working with themes
Adding portlets to portal pages
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