Creating a Custom WebSphere Portal 8 Theme with the Eclipse IDE
This is a very good IBM article on how to get started with your own custom theme for WebSphere Portal 8: Deploying and developing IBM WebSphere Portal 8 themes: A step-by-step guide A couple of notes: While the article is mentioning RAD as a preffered tool, I was successfully able to use Eclipse IDE (with the WAS 8 server connector plugin provided by IBM). I was working on Linux and I used the command line to mount the WebDAV shares ( WebDav Client on Linux ). You can also use Nautilus to connect to the WebDAV shares.