Change colour of the theme on different Pages

[ryancreed]

Hello,

I am new at this, so I apologise if I seem thick but can you change colour of the theme on different Pages?

[ryancreed]

Is this not possible?

[leehack]

It is possible Ryan, but i would imagine outside of your ability to be honest. You really want to have an external design and css with block ifs which is just too long to explain and teach. I'd recommend keeping it simple while you are getting to grips with it.

[ryancreed]

Hi Lee,

If it was me I would but my boss is hounding me that certain sections in the site has to be different colours, any kinda help would be good, im not as stupid as I have made myself out to be, I want to keep the theme the same but just the colours different. I can use dreamwaeaver and I have it linked with the program?

[leehack]

A lot would depend on what you actually want to change i.e. to what extent.

My initial thought would be to have separate stylesheets for each 'required style' and call them through a blockif which is testing which page you are on and deciding on which stylesheet it should use.

You'd need to be more specific on what you want to change, if it only small items or easy items, it may be simpler. To have any real chance of extensive help, you want to be providing a screenshot of what you have now with arrows pointing to what you would want changed. You would also need to specify how many times will this change occur and how many sections etc.

[jont]

You need to play it crafty and design it from the ground up with the colour changes in mind, preferably using CSS and conditional statements as suggested by Lee along with a user defined variable at section level.... if you make the styling inline this would make it easier to change on a section by section (page by page) basis.

Making this backward compatible could be a pain so if you have not yet started build with this in mind.

[ryancreed]

I need to change the colour of the Form Emphasis, Palette colour 1,2,3

[ryancreed]

Sorry one other thing is that I am using the Evaluation copy as I am making sure that I can do everything and if it does the company will buy it. It is possible to take the site I have created with the evaluation copy and use it will the full version?

[leehack]

Yes via a snapshot.

[ryancreed]

Sweet,
Ok so I need to create CSS style sheets defining the colours I want for each section?

[pinbrook]

Thats how i'd do it

block statements and CSS

[ryancreed]

Cool I am finished for today Lee I will send a screenshot tommorow, thanks alot for all your help Lee, Jont and pinbrook

[ryancreed]

These are the sections I need to change

I will probably need it differet on 4 sections within the online catalogue pages
Thanks Lee

[Bruce]

Hi,

That should be possible. You will have to make 3 copies of your existing overall layout for catalog pages in the library and make the necessary colour changes etc and save them. You can then go to the main section and on the 'Layout' tab under 'Site' against 'Overall Page Layout' use the drop down to select the specific overall layout for that section. Sub-sections can be set to use parent.

Kind regards,