On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Robert Munro &lt;rrmunro(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: One way of generating pages is using velocity, in which case you may find the following links of interest: Velocity User Guide.pdf<http://www.weather.gov/ost/SEC/AE/Site_Migration/Velocity%20Us… http://www.weather.gov/ost/SEC/AE/Site_Migration/Velocity%20User%20Guide.pdf) Jakarta Velocity.pdf<http://henning.schmiedehausen.org/velocity/Jakarta%20Veloci… http://henning.schmiedehausen.org/velocity/Jakarta%20Velocity.pdf ) http://mire.environmentalchange.net/~webmaster/images/velocity-subsystem.pn…gt;[image: http://mire.environmentalchange.net/~webmaster/images/velocity-subsystem.png] Regarding standard headers, footers, etc see examples in various xwiki based sites. Perhaps use 'view source' to get a browsers-eye overview of the generated HTML, and also which skin-file defining layout&style . On http://xwiki.org, note, for example: <link href="/xwiki/bin/skin/XWiki/NewOrgSkin/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />" ... <div id="headerglobal" class="layoutsection">