Look And Feel (branding) change in web application?

I am doing a research and I neeed advice from people who have more experience in dynamic customizing of java web applications.
In my custom case I have a simple login page with some images, labels and so on. The idea is to implement it in such a way to allow easy customization of some parts from the page.
For example let's say that the application is used by company AAA. Thay might want to change the logo image with their own image and change the default 'disclaimer' text with some other text by using appropriate admin module which allows user-friendly interaction.
The task seems very easy and it really IS very easy, I just wonder if there are any 'best practices' for such a situation.
One approach is to define all changable resources in standard .properties file. Having in mind that I have < 10 changable resources this seems reasonable enough. Anyway I still prefer to use additional table with two columns (key->value) which is the same as using .properties file, only the API to access these resources would be slightly different. I have in mind that the DB approach is somehow more flexible because in the future I might need more changable resources in more than one page, and reading/writing large .properties file might not be the best solution.
Any recommendations or other approaches to solve the 'problem'?

U have an another option "XML".
sample :
<profile>
<company1>
<logo></logo>
<disclaimer></disclaimer>
</company1>
<company2>
<logo></logo>
<disclaimer></disclaimer>
</company2>
</profiles>

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