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SharePoint Theme

Represents a collection of graphics and cascading style sheets that can modify how a Web site looks.

Real World Example

A business group wants to create a common high-level graphical look and feel for a set of Web sites. They hire a graphics designer to create a new theme that can be installed on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and then applied to any Web site to provide the intended graphical scheme.

Technical Details

Themes in SharePoint Products and Technologies are installed on the front-end Web server file system and can be referenced by any Web site in the SharePoint environment. If a Web site refers to a theme that is not available, it should render as if no theme was applied.

Support Details

After a theme is installed, execute an IISReset command to make the theme available.

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Creating a SharePoint Theme      Ian Morrish - MSFT ... Kopperla   |   Edit   |   Show History

Themes re-skin the layout by changing colours and images used in the design. Since a theme is just a CSS file and images, the layout of the page such as the location of the navigation is controled by the master page.

To create a new theme, copy an existing theme from the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\THEMES directory into a new directory.

Edit the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\SPTHEMES.XML file and add a section for your new theme:


<Templates>
<TemplateID>NewDirectoryName</TemplateID>
<DisplayName>Theme Display Name</DisplayName>
<Description>Give Description of the theme</Description>
<Thumbnail>images/customimage.png</Thumbnail>
<Preview>images/pagepreview.gif</Preview>
</Templates>

Perform an IIS Reset and then select the new theme from the Site Settings page.

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IIS Reset is not sufficient to force a refesh of the current theme      www.ddkonline.com   |   Edit   |   Show History

If you are making changes to an existing theme(e.g. your custom theme), you must also do a Ctrl F5 salute of course. If this doesn't work, you must then change to a different Theme and then back to your custom theme to see the changes.

All About Sharepoint Themes      Santhoz_31   |   Edit   |   Show History
Hi,

Sharepoint themes are not the so tuf as it is thought, its very simple to be made with your own design, to know more about it, look here to know how to make ur own theme,

http://santhoz-teaches.blogspot.com/2009/02/sharepoint-themes-unveiled.html

And to download lots of sharepoint themes, http://www.buytemplates.net

Regards,
Santhosh
http://santhoz-teaches.blogspot.com
Modifying an existing theme      ThorstenHans1983   |   Edit   |   Show History

Before you customize an existing SharePoint theme copy it and add a reference to it in spthemes.xml

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