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CONFIGURATION

Skin Style / Colors

Most of the style parameters that control the appearance of fonts and other layout elements for the PUBLIC pages are incorporated into a CSS file which is named foundry.css and is located in the HTML arm of a given skin. Thus, if we are dealing with the "Red Planet Skin" we expect to find the skin CSS file at:

/html/path/to/.../skins/red_planet_skin/foundry.css

This CSS file should NOT be edited directly. Instead, to adjust style parameters you need to visit the Skin Style / Colors frame of the Configure control panel. There you will be presented with a number of different color settings plus a few style parameters which control font face/size/weight in both general text and hyperlinks. When you update/save these settings the CSS file for the currently selected skin is rewritten with the new parameters.

The various style parameters are explained on the Skin Style / Colors frame and will not be elaborated upon here. Suffice it to say that if you need to change the appearance of some style-related aspect of your skin, this is the place to start. For each color parameter you will see a swatch-box of the current color and you can either type in a replacement color in hex format or click on the color pallete to be represented with a selection of 216 web-safe colors to choose from.

If you feel you need to add CSS code directly to a file then the appropriate file to edit is NOT foundry.css but the following CSS skin file found in the CGI bin arm:

/cgi-bin/path/to/.../my/skins/red_planet/templates/css_public.ttml

This style file is in fact a Template-Toolkit template which, initially, defines just a few CSS classes. You can add your own classes here and they will be incorporated into the public pages generated by Review Foundry. One caveat: if you prefix your class names, be sure that you do NOT prefix them with the string foundry_ as this is exactly the prefix used in the foundry.css style file.

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