Thanks a lot, Dorothea!
I will try to apply the document you are suggesting and will probably be
back with more questions.
Cheers,
Stan
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Dorothea Salo <ds...@library.wisc.edu>wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Stan Orlov <stan.or...@msvu.ca> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > It was certainly asked before, but I would like to confirm whether it is
> > possible to have a completely different (from the rest of the IR) look
> and
> > feel for an individual community and its collections. I have v.1.5.1 on
> > Windows and want to use Manakin.
>
> The answer is that it is *mostly* possible. People who get to an item
> through its community or collection page will only ever see the one
> Manakin theme. Anyone else -- and that's many users; I would say
> *most* users who don't just land on an item page, grab what they want,
> and go -- will almost certainly see more than one theme, e.g. when
> searching or browsing across the entire repository. (I've also noticed
> some mildly odd behavior around admin screens and themes -- e.g. when
> trying to log in from a page with a non-default theme, it shoots me
> back to the default theme briefly, then back to the non-default theme
> for the submit screens.)
>
> There's no good way to fix this that I can think of; it's an
> indeterminate problem. But for public-relations ("we want our own
> branding") purposes, Manakin is pretty much good enough, because
> communities/collections can look completely different, and even (to
> some extent) behave differently. Compare the front page of the UW
> repository <http://minds.wisconsin.edu/> (default theme) with the
> community page for the Madison campus
> <http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/8334>. This is Manakin atop
> 1.5.1.
>
> > And if yes, what is the best way for a
> > novice to start modifying it? I read some posts and the Wiki, but maybe
> > there are some good introductory how-to(s) that I am missing?
>
> <http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Manakin_theme_tutorial> should get
> you started.
>
> Dorothea
>
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