Choosing a Web style

There are two approaches for customizing WebFacing Web projects:
  • Use the Web Site Designer tools.
  • Choose from one of the predefined styles that ships with the WebFacing Tool or customize one of the predefined styles.
Enable for Web Site Designer
Select Enable for Web Site Designer when you want to use the Web Site Designer tools for style customization of your WebFacing project. Web Site Designer will allow you to easily design a web site with a consistent theme and integrate it with WebFacing or other Web applications with the same layout and style. If you choose Enable for Web Site Designer, the predefined WebFacing styles will no longer be available for your project. You can use the Style properties pages to modify the style, but you must use the Web Site Designer tools to maintain and save the style. See the related topic Editing a Web Site style for more information.
Select classic WebFacing style
You can choose a predefined style or one that you have created using the Style properties pages. By creating your own styles, you can reduce the need to later customize the appearance of your converted application. For example, if there are specific graphics and color schemes that you want to use, by creating a style that incorporates these, you can affect the appearance of multiple pages rather than editing these pages individually after your application has been converted.

For WebFacing portlet projects, choose from one of the predefined styles that ships with the WebFacing Tool specifically for WebFacing portlet projects or a customized style based on one of the predefined styles for WebFacing portlet projects.

The main difference in the available styles for portal applications is the look and feel of the command key buttons. This is because the look and feel for your WebFacing portlet will be based on the selected portal server theme.

The WebFacing portlet styles do not include any color-specific declarations. This allows the application to automatically apply the portal color declarations based on the theme selected for your portal application or page. To override the color displayed by portal themes, edit the Styles properties pages or edit the apparea.css file directly. Otherwise, modifications to your portal theme will take effect automatically based on the selected portal theme. See the portal documentation for more information on customizing portal themes.

Related concepts
Introducing the WebFacing Tool
Related tasks
Opening the WebFacing perspective
Selecting the source members to convert
Specifying CL commands for invoking your application
Finishing the project and converting your DDS source
Analyzing the conversion logs
Related information
WebFacing Tool -- current DDS keyword support

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