I'm trying to add a bottom banner image to our sharepoint site without editing the masterpage files.
Is this possible?
Edit:
The image should appear on all pages with the relevant theme.
Cheers,
-Jeremiah Tantongco
I guess you don't want the image on all pages? You could use an Image Web Part or Content Editor Web Part and add the images using those standard web parts.
Edit the theme.css file in your C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extentions\12\TEMPLATES\THEMES\themeName
Put any images in the same folder and referer it as url('image.jpg') in the CSS, do not use / or ../ etc.
Save the file, apply a different theme to your site, recycle the application pool then apply the customized theme back. Complicated, yes I know. Keep in mind that the theme is now changed to everyone using it and will be changed when applied in the future.
If you want to find other ways to customize the site, check this post I made a while ago
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My company just buy a really nice theme for dotnetnuke. The problem comes when our clients does not want to see the site in a responsive mode. I have been thinking the problem is the meta viewport in the theme.
I dont want to create a new theme and I dont want to use javascript.
How could I remove that meta viewport from an existing theme for dotnetnuke? Is this possible?
You can open up the ASCX files for the Theme.
Try navigating to /portals/_default/skins/THEMENAME
Locate the ASCX files there.
Make a backup before you make any edits.
Open the ASCX file in a text editor (Visual Studio works, or even just Notepad).
Locate the viewport tag, remove it.
Refresh the browser/site where you are using the theme.
If you have multiple ASCX files in there, there are likely different layouts available, and you'll probably have to edit them all.
A Wordpress theme has following components:
theme.zip file
demo-content.xml
PSD.zip file (contains files such as icon-blog.psd, icon-home.psd, integrity-blog.psd, ... renew-home.psd)
Using WP Admin (WP Backend) I have managed to upload theme.zip file.
Using WP Importer I have managed to upload demo content.
However, what do I do with PSD files?
I would like to add that the current frontend looks very basic. And I assume PSD files serve to enrich frontend. But how do I use them? Where do I "import" them? How do I do it?
After taking a look at the comments, I have to say that if the tag exists, the answer should be answered here too.
Your .PSD is basically all the images that compose your theme in one editable file.
The extension of the file is meant to be opened with Photoshop and if you open it there, you should see the design of your theme ready to be cut and applied into HTML and CSS.
For Wordpress or your site it has no utility by itself, however, if you want to change some button, icon or related it's just a matter of open the editable, change it, save the image and replace it on the server.
Ex:
You bought a theme initially developed in English and you have a button which is an image that says "Register". Since it's not editable, there's no code change that can help you, so the only way you have is to open the .PSD, edit the button and save it again as image, replacing the old one.
I have a custom skin that I designed. It is used on more than one portal that I manage. I want to add the ability change a header image based on the page that is being displayed. This image is a background and I don't want to use a content pane to achieve this. Also, I would prefer to not use Java script either (but I have a feeling this will be necessary)
I know how to reference the skin path for resources, but this would put the same image on every portal and page. I want to have a default image like header_bg.jpg in an /images folder in each portal that uses the skin.
So I want to know if there is a way to get the relative root of the portal from the skin css file that is being used by that portal?
Thanks in advance
You could put the CSS into Portal.css for each of the portals, that gets loaded on every page of a DNN site, depending on which portal it is.
Portal.css loads after container and module CSS files.
I thought it may be cached, but for some reason that I don't know the changes I make in CSS file that is located in application theme does not show up. If I take that change and put in a CSS file outside of theme folder, let's root or a new folder, it does show up. This is a ASP.NET 4.0 application. Not sure where to look for the solution. Please advise.
Don't just put the Theme folder, create a sub folder and put under it. It is better to name both sub-folder and css file same.
My work has recently deployed Sharepoint and I'm currently trying to get to grips with it.
I'd like to be able to completely customise the way my blog looks but I have no idea where to start. I had a look through Microsoft's developer site and it does look like they have a lot of stuff there but it all seems to be pitched at a much higher level than I'm at.
I'd consider myself pretty experienced with CSS and web development, does any of this translate into sharepoint? Can I make a new CSS file and upload a bunch of images into a store and change the look of my 'site' that way, or is it a lot more complicated?
I realise this is a little vague, but I'd really appreciate some pointers to a "getting started with making sharepoint not look sucky" guide or an example of the sort of thing I can actually hope to achieve. Hopefully my question isn't too high-level.
Thanks
Use SharePoint Themes, their installation is tricky at first but once you get a good development environment you'll be able to test modifications in the traditional "save css file, press F5".
Themes have these pros:
Do not need sharepoint designer
Do not need to change masterpages and deal with (un)ghosting (the sum of all fears)
Can be applied to one subsite and have other subsites with different themes (see gl-applytheme in google for mass application of themes thru many subsites)
and these cons:
You have no access to HTML changes, for that you need masterpage love (I dont think thats a con, its a limitation that usually exists in different scenarios and also makes you improve your css skills so much in the css-zen-garden way)
Themes once applied, go to the server memory -- meaning that if you change your theme folder you need to recycle the application pool, apply a different theme and apply your theme back to see that one pixel border you forgot to put in the footer. But for that specific problem I have a solution below:
After you do your "theme setup" you'll be able to only work with CSS and images and be free to overwrite any class in SharePoint using your favorite Developer Toolbar/Firebug addon to find what you want to change.
In the folder c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\THEMES create a folder named THEMEDEV
Inside the new folder, create a file called theme.css and another called THEMEDEV.INF
Inside the .INF file, paste this:
[info]
title=THEMEDEV
codepage=65001
version=3.00
format=3.00
readonly=true
refcount=0
[titles]
1033=THEMEDEV
now open the c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033 folder (1033 is your language code, thats the default for english installations)
edit the SPTHEMES.XML file
below <SPThemes ...> insert:
<Templates>
<TemplateID>THEMEDEV</TemplateID>
<DisplayName>Development Theme</DisplayName>
<Description>Development Theme.</Description>
<Thumbnail>images/thnone.gif</Thumbnail>
<Preview>images/thnone.gif</Preview>
</Templates>
now edit your theme.css file, add an import to your favorite CSS development folder:
#import url('file:///C:/SharepointThemes/Theme1/theme.css');
Save everything, open your sharepoint: Site Actions => Site Settings => Look and Feel => Site theme => choose your Development Theme and hit Apply
If everything worked, you can now edit your C:\SharepointThemes\Theme1\theme.css in your favorite editor, save it with something like
* { color: red !important }
and see the changes on your site.
Something also important when developing themes: do not create folders to store, say, your images, use everything in the same folder and in the code itself use a relative fashion, like background: url('image.png')
ps1: Only you can see changes you are making to your sharepoint site due to the file://c:/ folder, if you need more people to see the changes during development, setup a network path that they all have access, the rest is the same.
ps2: Keep in mind this is a development environment, to make your theme a live theme you need to create another one to store all the content used to change your site's visuals.
The process is similar to the one creating the THEMEDEV one, just put a pretty and consistent name across all configurations (Folder name, .INF name, .INF contents, SPThemes.xml node contents), paste all your images in the Theme's folder and replace the theme.css file with your content.
Edit1: Reading your comment above, now you have a "editing + uploading to FTP" type of setup :) this works for MOSS and WSS by the way (even if you don't know the difference). For more info on customizing sharepoint, I made a post yesterday about more options:
Sharepoint: How to remove default core.css reference?
I like to always use this post as a starting point for SP branding: http://erikswenson.blogspot.com/2008/10/functional-sharepoint-branding-style.html
It depends on whether you're talking about a WSS 3.0 site or a MOSS site. WSS 3.0 sites can be customized using themes. Customizing MOSS sites is a little trickier, although you can add a SINGLE custom CSS style sheet via Central Admin - in this case, your custom files, images, etc., would be deployed as a Feature.
The best explanation of how this works that I have come across is the six part series on the cleverworkarounds.com site.