Banner Bar

Most Apache Maven sites have a 'banner' along the top this typically contains two icons referencing the Apache project and a proejct logo as shown below.

The maven-site-plugin supports the definition of the icons using ‘bannerLeft’ and ‘bannerRight’ elements. Below is an example of these sections being defined within a site.xml file.

<project name="xxx">
    [...]
    <bannerLeft>
      <href>https://github.com/stevecrox/maven-site-bootstrap-skin</href>
      <border>0</border>
      <width>328px</width>
      <height>116px</height>
      <src>image/example-banner-left.png</src>
    </bannerLeft>

    <bannerRight>
      <href>https://github.com/stevecrox/maven-site-bootstrap-skin</href>
      <border>0</border>
      <width>256px</width>
      <height>125px</height>
      <src>image/example-banner-right.png</src>
    </bannerRight>
    [...]
</project>

The attributes of these elements should match the attributes of an <img> element within HTML. The skin will extract these values and create a floating container at the top of the page and populate images with the information provided.

If these sections are left blank then no banner is added to the page, as a minimum the banner requires a alt or src attribute for something to be displayed.