Title: Customize the look and feel
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The look and feel (GUI) of the Apache Rave Portal can be customized to your own preference. The Apache Rave Portal contains a mechanism to easily add your own CSS file(s) which are called after the default.css file.

##1) Get Apache Rave

There are multiple ways to build your custom Apache Rave instance, but the quickest is to use a Maven WAR overlay.  See [Extending Rave](rave-extensions.html) for an example overlay.

##2) Add CSS file(s)

Add you own CSS file(s) to the `src/main/webapp/css` folder of your extension portal module.

##3) Refer to the new CSS file(s)

 - Create a JSP tag file: `src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/tags/custom_css.tag`
 - Add a link to the stylesheet(s) in the custom_css.tag:


        <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt" prefix="c">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="<c:url value="/css/my_custom.css"/>"/>

##4) Change default settings

A portal administrator can change default settings such as the page title in the browser's title bar.
This is described on the [Portal preferences](admin-interface-preferences.html) help page.