Bored with your Theme already - here’s a way to customise your own courtesy of those nice people at IBM

Gabriella Davis  August 29 2008 12:41:55 PM

Personally I've been living in the 'natural' green Theme since they came out but the font is a bit teeny tiny for me - so thanks to Mary Beth Raven and her team and Qian Liang at IBM who developed the original themes we now have the ability to customise those or create our own from scratch.  The tool you need is called 'CSS Inspector' and it's available via the Widget catalog (category 'Theme Tools") - just install it and you're ready to go.  The CSS Inspector shows you the current stylesheet and lets you make and apply changes on the fly as well and export and import from your own designs.

Surely this calls for a community challenge - I'm just a dull admin but there's plenty of you creative designery types out there to really knock out some cool themes in no time.  If you do you can load them up to the public widget catalog and they'll download to the client preferences of anyone who has installed the existing set (just categorise your widget as 'Theme')*.  

* Anyone need a hand uploading to the public catalog let me know.  For instructions on addiing the original themes to your preferences go here

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