CORE allows you to completely customize the look and feel of a conference. To do this, set

Custom layout

Set the 'custom layout' option in the conference manager. When this option is set all stylesheets, graphics and javascript will be loaded from a separate directory.

Custom layout

Use the following steps to create a custom layout. It is advised that you use the copy commands and then proceed by editing thesethe copied files.

• Create layout script. This template file contains all the (X)HTML markup for your layout. Use the following command to copy the CORE layout file.

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  Copy the CORE layout file:
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  $ cp -r application/layouts/scripts/core application/layouts/scripts/<abbreviation>

• Create folder in public/includes for stylesheets, images, javascript etc. This folder must have the following structure:

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  includes/ css gfx js

Use the following command to copy the CORE includes folder.

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  copy the CORE includes folder: $ cp -r public/includes/core public/includes/<abbreviation>

• for mass emails create files: abbreviation-<action>.phtml - eg:

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  chrisdev-reviewers.phtml

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$ cp application/configs/navigation/core.php application/configs/navigation/chrisdev.php

• create script folder based on abbreviation in conference settings.
• create includes folder in public/includes based on abbreviation

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CORE Directory

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Contents

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public/includes/conf_abbr

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Support files, documents, CSS, icons, pictures, javascript
For TNC2011 links should be to /includes/tnc2011/css/... etc

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application/modules/web/views/scripts

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