Creating new themes

Use the New Theme wizard to create customized themes for your project.

Within this wizard, you will be able to:
  • Specify a title for your theme
  • Select a source theme from the list of existing themes
  • Associate skins with the new theme

To create a theme, do the following:

  1. In the Project Explorer, right-click the name of your portal project.
  2. From the pop-up menu, select New > Theme. The New Theme wizard will appear.
  3. In the New Theme page, enter a title for your theme. The title that you enter here should not have spaces between words. It will use the default language of the portal. After you complete the wizard, you can use the theme Properties view to enter titles for other languages.
    Note: The default language of the portal may not be the language you see when you access the portal. This is because the portal has three language selection methods. The default is used only when the other two methods cannot decide which language to use.
    Note: The default Unique name and Folder name is generated from the title for the default language. If the default language of your portal is the language using DBCS characters, do one of the following:
    • Enter the title using SBCS only, then use the Properties view to enter the DBCS title, or
    • Enter the title using DBCS, then type the unique name and folder name in SBCS.
  4. Select a source theme; then click Next.
  5. In the Select Skins page, place a check mark next to the skins that you want to use in this new theme. Set one skin as the default; then click Finish.

In the Project Explorer, look in Dynamic Web Projects > [portalproject] > Themes to see your new theme folder.

Related tasks
Defining layouts
Working with skins
Working with themes
Editing themes
Changing themes
Adding portlets to portal pages

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