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 Creating Skins
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 Brett Porter
 Dennis Lundberg
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 2009-03-08
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Creating Skins

  If you want to tune the way your site looks, you can use a custom skin to
  provide your own CSS stylesheets. If that is still not enough, you can even tweak
  the output templates that Maven uses to generate the site documentation.

  For an in-depth discussion of site customization, please have a look at
  {{{http://www.sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/site-generation.html} Maven: The Definitive Guide, Chapter 15. Site Generation}}
  provided by Sonatype.

* About

  A skin contains the following elements:

    * Resources to copy into each project (such as images used by the CSS)

    * A couple of CSS files, containing the visual styling

    * An optional Velocity template for an alternate HTML rendering of the site

* Building

  A skin is built like any other JAR - with a <<<packaging>>> of <<<jar>>>.
  No additional plugins are needed.

  Resources should be put in the normal <<<src/main/resources>>> directory.

  Once the JAR is built and deployed, it can be used by projects.

* Constructing the CSS

~~ @todo More information is needed here on constructing the CSS

  If you are interested in constructing your own CSS, it is recommended that
  you copy the file
  {{{https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/skins/trunk/maven-default-skin/src/main/resources/css/maven-theme.css}<<<maven-theme.css>>>}}
  from Maven Default Skin and modify it to suit your needs.

* Customizing the HTML Output with a Velocity Template

  The format of the Velocity template is currently out of scope for this
  document. To attempt this, start by copying
  <<<{{{https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/doxia/doxia-sitetools/trunk/doxia-site-renderer/src/main/resources/org/apache/maven/doxia/siterenderer/resources/default-site.vm}default-site.vm}}>>>
  to <<<src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/site.vm>>> in your project and then
  modify it to your needs.

  For more information about how to write Velocity templates see the
  {{{http://velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.5/user-guide.html}Velocity User Guide}}
  and
  {{{http://velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.5/vtl-reference-guide.html}Velocity Template Language Reference Guide}}.

* Examples of Existing Skins

  A list of links to skins that can be used as inspiration can be found on
  {{{http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Maven+Skins}the wiki}}.