A theme determines the global appearance of a page. The purpose
of this is to ensure visual consistency. Themes affect the navigational structure,
the banner, the colors and fonts, the available portlet skins, and other visual
elements of a page. A skin determines the frame that is displayed around
a portlet.
Use the Themes and Skins portlet to do the following:
- Set the portal default theme
- Set the portal default skin
- Associate skins with a theme
- Set the default skin for a theme
- Add new themes and skins to the portal
- Delete themes and skins from the portal.
You find this portlet under Administration Portal
User Interface. See the respective portlet helps for additional
instructions.
Notes: - If you remove a theme, the references to that theme and the links between
that theme and the related skins are also deleted. If you want to remove
the skins related to the removed theme as well, apply special care to remove
only skins that are related to no other theme than the deleted one. The
skins are associated to the portlets. Therefore, if you have a skin related
to several themes, and you delete one of those themes, then the skin will
still show under the other themes.
- Deleting a theme or skin does not remove the /theme or /skin directory
from the server.
- Some of the theme and skin titles might not appear correctly if your language
preference uses DBCS characters. To correct the display of these titles,
change the character set used by your language preference for HTML markup
to UTF-8.
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