Coral Skin Customization

Imagine we have a new Plone 3.0 site with Quintagroup's Plone Coral Skin installed. Front page will approximately look the following way, 

where:
1 - company logo, that may be replaced with yours
2 - portal slogan, can be changed to your own
3 - coral skin default image, can be different for different folders
4 - footer: its color can be changed, it can be different for different folders  
All these site parts can be customized to meet your needs.

This Plone tutorial consists of several parts, in which you will find explanations about how to customize Chameleon Plone Skin to your needs:

Part 1 - How to replace default company logo with a new one
Part 2 - How to replace default company slogan with a new one
Part 3 - How to change top image
Part 4 - How to change Coral Skin column width
Part 5 - How to change footer color
All the changes in Coral Plone Skin can be done in two ways: through Zope Management Interface and through File System.

1) Zope Management Interface (ZMI)

ZMI can be reached by adding /manage to site URL. In the left navigation menu select portal_skins. Then select qploneskincoral among right portal_skins content items.  This is a folder where all the following changes will take place.

2) File System

To get to File System in Windows use WinSCP program, in Linux - with Krusader program. Login to your Quintagroup Plone Hosting account. (In case you do not know how to connect to your account, follow description from Plone Products Installation in Linux and How To Install Plone Products (in Windows) up to the moment you get to Products folder.

Find qPloneSkinCoral folder among other Plone Products:


Select skins folder:


It consists of qploneskincoral folder:

This is a folder in which all the following changes will take place.