Flow Plone Skin Customization

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

where:
1 - is a default company logo that may be replaced with yours
2 - is a top-left static area on the entry page, reserved for a custom content
3 - is a random image

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

Part 1 - How to repalce default company logo with a new one
Part 2 - How to fill top left area with new content
Part 3 - How to change images for random rotation
Part 4 - How to change columns width

All the changes in Flow 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:
 

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 qPloneSkinFlow folder among other Plone Products:


Select skins folder:


It consists of qploneskinflow folder:

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