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

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.

$ 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:
includes/ css gfx js

Use the following command to copy the CORE includes folder.

$ cp -r public/includes/core public/includes/<abbreviation>

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

Custom navigation

To change the default CORE navigation, set the 'custom navigation' option in the conference manager and:

create file in /config/navigation with name: <abbreviation>.php

$ 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

CORE Directory	Contents
`public/includes/conf_abbr`	Support files, documents, CSS, icons, pictures, javascript For TNC2011 links should be to `/includes/tnc2011/css/...` etc
`application/modules/web/views/scripts`	Page templates (.phtml) Not possible to add stuff on the fly, the logic to render these is inside CORE