Theme Configuration 1.6.x

The theme is configured from a single configuration screen...

Requirements

In order to configure the theme:

• Builder must have been installed (see Installing Builder)
• You must have Space Administrator privileges for the Space (or Site Administrator privileges)
• Builder must have been enabled within a Space (see Enabling the Theme)

Accessing the Configuration Screen

Once the theme is in use, you can access the configuration screen at any time by choosing Theme Config from the Edit > Administration menu:

Configuration Options

The configuration screen contains the following options (from top to bottom)...

Space Home Page

This setting defines which page within a space should be used as the homepage for the space

and defaults to Home:

If you have set an alternate page to be the homepage for the space, simply enter the title of that page in the space provided.

1. Clicking the logo banner will also take you to the space homepage. ↩

Menu Settings

 (New in Builder 1.6!) This panel allows you to choose from the various Menu Styles and alter various Menu Settings:

You can use these options to tailor the design and operation of the menu to your exact needs.

Should you experience any performance issues (eg. menus loading slowly), you can use these settings for Performance Tuning.

Page Settings

 (Upgraded in Builder 1.6!) This panel allows you to set various Page Settings that affect all pages within the space:

Please note that if you want to use PNG icons in the menus, you must enable PNG alpha-transparency support.

Custom Menus

This panel allows you to define your own custom menus, either side of the inbuilt View and Edit menus

:

To learn how to create your own custom menus, please see Menus.

2. You can also customise the in-built View and Edit menus - for more information, please see our tutorial on View and Edit Menus. ↩

CSS Custom Styles

This section allows you to define style sheets to be injected in to all pages within the space:

For more information on setting custom style sheets, please see our tutorial on CSS Custom Styles.

Custom Footer

This section allows you to define the contents of the footer that appears at the bottom of all pages within the space:

For more information on customising the footer, please see our tutorial on the Custom Footer.

Saving Settings

When you have finished making changes, click the Save button.