Several themes have been created for the sample sites. You can modify these themes to help identify and personalize your organization’s website.
Best practices for theme development
■ Caution: Never change the core style sheets 00-Reset.css and 10-UltraWave.css. All derivative themes inherit from these files, and any changes you make to them are lost on upgrade. Instead, override the base styles in your 99-[theme].css.
■ Before modifying a theme, find the best one: apply all of the themes to the default Member site in turn, and decide which theme is closest to the final look and layout that you want.
■ Always work from your copy of the theme, so that you can begin again. See Copying a website theme.
■ Make changes only to websites that you create. When a sample site is updated with each release, the iMIS Upgrader overwrites any changes you made to it.
■ Take advantage of browser-based developer tools to test and troubleshoot changes before committing them to your style sheets:
□ Internet Explorer and Chrome: Press F12 to toggle the Developer Toolbar.
□ FireFox: Install the Firebug add-on to see a wealth of information about the structure of the website and the styles it is using. Turn on the element inspector and click a piece of content to see the styling that it is implementing:
