Modifying site themes

Several themes have been created for the Quick Start Sites. You can modify these themes to help identify and personalize your organization’s website.

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Warning

Never change the core style sheets 00-Reset.css and 10-UltraWave.css. All derivative themes inherit from these files, and any changes you make to them are lost on upgrade. Instead, override the base styles in your 99-[theme].css file.

• Before modifying a theme, find the best one: apply all of the themes to the default Member site in turn, and decide which theme is closest to the final look and layout that you want.
• Always work from your copy of the theme, so that you can begin again. For more information, see Copying a website theme.
• Make changes only to websites that you create. When a Quick Start Site is updated with each release, the iMIS Upgrader overwrites any changes you made to it.
• Take advantage of browser-based developer tools to test and troubleshoot changes before committing them to your style sheets:

  • Internet Explorer and Chrome: Press F12 to toggle the Developer Toolbar.

    

  • Firefox: Install the Firebug add-on to see a wealth of information about the structure of the website and the styles it is using. Turn on the element inspector and click a piece of content to see the styling that it is implementing: