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Theme the search box

I need to change the search box & login controls (CommonHeaderUserContent). I need to get rid of the background color so that a graphic that has been set as the background of the header will show through. Suggestions? Thanks! Doug Evans IT Manager Association of Washington Cities

Posted to Themes (Forum) by AWC IT Team on Fri, Jun 1 2007
Filed under: skinning, css, themes, Theme, background color, CS Themes, Changing Default Theme, Skinned Controls, CS2007 Theme Customization, CS2007 Theme Customization skinning, #CommonHeader, chameleon

Default logo showing up over defaultTheme settings

Weird thing is happening and maybe it's because I don't understand CS properly. I created a blog theme and set it as my defaultTheme in communityserver.config. In that theme, I removed the default CS logo and text site title. If a user goes into their preferences and sets their theme to slackage...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by mferrell3 on Fri, Mar 16 2007
Filed under: skinning, Theme, blog

do I have to change the icons bg color if I change the forum bg color?

Hi I changed the bg color of all my community server to light blue, and now all the icons (like the folders icons in the forum) are with a white background, and it doesn't look good... do I have to change all the images, or there is another way??? thanks

Posted to Themes (Forum) by liorfrenkel on Wed, Nov 22 2006
Filed under: skinning, css, skin, Theme, images

changing the structure of the CommonRightColumn

Hello I am trying to add a shadow images to the right column, but I can't find the place to do it. I tried to change the Master.ascx, but it is not good because I see my shadow images in all pages including those which don't have a right column area like a forum post. I can not find the place that contains...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by liorfrenkel on Sun, Nov 19 2006
Filed under: skinning, skin, blog skin tasks, html structure css, skins, themes, skinning theme error blog, Theme Engine, BlogSkins, Skinnings, Theme, CommonContentArea, forum, community server

Skinning weblog post date

As far as I can tell, in the Daily News there has been notification about the new look for your post date on your weblog posts, but I cannot find it. So after looking for an hour or so, I turn to you guys and girls... Wahooga is an example. The little green postdate at every post. How can I recreate...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by Dennis van der Stelt on Mon, Nov 6 2006
Filed under: skinning, Theme, blog

Customizing CS 2.1

I have gathered, tested and documented (unofficial) a few customizations that can be made to one's installation of CS 2.1 All the tweaks are not mine, I have just aggregated them. Find them here: http://community.dynacx.com/blogs/sashidhar/archive/2006/10/29/Community-Server-tweaks_2E002E002E00_.aspx...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by sskokku on Sun, Oct 29 2006
Filed under: skinning, css, skin, blog skin tasks, new website, navigation, menu, tabbar, cs 2.1, tags, tag cloud, customization, coding, blog code, default theme, sign in, BlogSkins, Skinnings, Theme, CommonUserArea, Content Parts, navigation howto, CommonContentArea, author, Blog Paging

Re: Site Virtualization & Default Theme Selection

KingChewy: Well, I have come up with a custom solution that allows theme changes based on what virtual site is being viewed using the this .Response.Filter system in ASP.NET . It’ll probably win me the honorable “hack of the year award” for this slice of code, but its functional and appears to be stable...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by davestechshop on Mon, Oct 23 2006
Filed under: skinning, themes, Skinnings, Theme, multiple, multiple communities

Re: Multiple Skins, One DB

LarryKerem: Thanks for the feedback. That is the direction i thought i would need to go down. I'll let you know how i make out. How is this working out? I like Michael Trefry 's suggestion and I would like to try it myself if it is working for you. However, I need a similar solution for the navigation...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by davestechshop on Mon, Oct 23 2006
Filed under: skinning, themes, skinning theme error blog, Skinnings, Theme, multiple, multiple communities

Re: iroha CS 2.0 compatibility with CS 2.1

There have been a couple of posts here regarding Iroha's themes and CS2.1, but the short of it is no, none of the 2.0 skins are 100% compatible with version 2.1 without modification. The mods aren't difficult (if I can do it, anyone can), and if you follow this excellent tutorial on converting 2.0 skins...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by steveso on Mon, Oct 9 2006
Filed under: skinning, iroha, Theme

Programmatically switch CS theme for main page and blogs

Hey, I would like to switch CS themes programatically depending on context. Could you please suggest how to achieve this? I'm trying to play around user.Theme and Weblog.Theme but it doen't seem to solve the problem. Please find module code below Thank you, Anton using System; using System.Collections...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by c0de on Fri, Apr 25 2008
Filed under: skinning, Theme