Applying a new Theme or Layout

  • If you haven’t logged into the web site already, do so now.  Click the Login link at the top of the home page and enter the login name and password as supplied.
  • Once you have successfully logged in click the web office link at the top of the home page.
  • Click on the Settings tab in the task pane at the top of the window.
  • Select the Themes and Layouts option.

Settings area not available? You must have one of the settings permissions in order to access this area; see you local web site administrator for more information.

 

The navigation pane on the left hand side of the window shows where existing themes and layouts have been applied:

 

 

The   symbol indicates that this group has a theme applied, the  symbol indicates that a layout has been applied.  So for example the root group, my church, has both a theme and layout applied, whereas the church life group has a layout only. 

 

The Womens Conference group is a mini-site with a different graphical style; the theme applied to this group creates a colour-coded area in the navigation pane to illustrate that the groups below have a different appearance.

 

The following example shows how to change the theme used by the root group.

 

To apply a new theme
  • Click on the root group, (My church in the example above) to see the themes and layout settings for this group.

The theme in current use is highlighted as illustrated below:

 

To apply a different theme:

  • Click the Add a new theme button to display the themes gallery.  The theme park is divided into two areas: a collection of styles available in the ChurchInsight gallery, and the styles you currently have created for your own church web site.
  • Click on a theme in the gallery to copy it to your church web site.
  • The new theme will appear in your list of available themes as illustrated below:

Before applying the new theme you can preview how the site will look by clicking on the   button next to the new theme.

  • To apply the theme to your web site click the button   in the appropriate row, then click OK to confirm your choice.

The new theme will automatically be applied to every group below the current one – in the example given above the entire web site will be given the selected theme.

 

To apply a new layout

The following example explains how to apply a different layout to one of the groups in your web site:

  • Click one of the groups in the navigation pane.

The layout currently in use is indicated in the layouts area as illustrated below:

 

 

The default layout for a group is illustrated below:

 

 

Note: if you have already selected a layout for your group the layouts area will indicate this.  You will need to remove the existing layout before you can select a new one.

  • Click the change button to display a gallery of pre-defined layouts.
  • Click on a thumbnail to select a new layout for the group.  Once the new layout has been selected you will be taken to the layout editor to make further changes if required.  For more information on using the layout editor click on Modifying a layout below.
  • Click the Save button to apply the layout to your group.  You can apply the new layout to any sub-groups by checking the apply to sub-groups option in the layout area.

Modyfing a layout

Modyfing a theme