I’m having some trouble with the skin tool

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wbyrd — Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:39 pm

The site I am working with has this brown wood logo. The logo just does not look right with the rest of the site. I would like to have brown-tan theme, instead of the default theme.

I tried reading the documentation about the skin tool, I think that’s what I would need. But, I don’t quite understand the documention. I am not sure which files to edit.

Can somebody point me in the right direction?

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shannah — Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:14 pm

The first and easiest thing you can do to change the color scheme is to add your own CSS file that overrides the default styles.

http://xataface.com/documentation/how-to/custom_javascripts

The next thing is to override the Dataface_Main_Template.html template (i.e. copy the Dataface_Main_Template.html file from dataface/Dataface/templates into your application’s templates directory and make customizations).

The Dataface_SkinTool class operates in behind the scenes offering a bunch of custom smarty tags that are available to the dataface templates. You shouldn’t have to change that class though. Just change the templates and CSS.

-Steve