Skin Installer

SkyBlueCanvas allows you to install an unlimited number of templates.
Requirments

SkyBlueCanvas templates must be saved as a ZIP archive before installing.
How To Install a Template

Diagram 12

Click the Templates icon on the main dashboard. You will be redirected to the Templates Dashboard shown in Diagram 12. From there, click the Install Skins button shown in Diagram 12-C. You will be redirected to the Skin Installer manager show in Diagram 15.

Diagram 15

Diagram 15-A

Digram 15-A indicates the template name and a camera icon. If the skin includes a thumb.gif file in its images directory, you can view a thumbnail of the template by positioning your cursor over the camera icon.

Diagram 15-B

Digram 15-B indicates the delete control. You can delete a template by clicking this control. If only one skin is installed, however, SkyBlueCanvas will not show this control.

Diagram 15-C

Digram 15-C indicates the Add button you use to open the Installer Control. To install a new template, click this button and you will be re-directed to the Installer Control shown in Diagram 16.

Diagram 16

Diagram 16-A

Diagram 16-A indicates the text field where you enter a name for your skin. This name will be used as the name of a directory, so it is suggested that you use a name that only includes lower-case letters and numbers.

Diagram 16-B

Diagram 16-A indicates the File Selector. Click the browse button. A file browser will open in a dialog. Use the file browser to navigate to and select the ZIP archive containing the skin you wish to install.

Diagram 16-C

To upload the new skin, click the Install button indicated in Diagram 16-C. SkyBlueCanvas will upload your new template to a temporary directory, un-archive it and move it to the templates directory.
Activating Your New Template

To activate your new template, navigate back to the Templates Dashboard using the button in the gray menu bar just below the blue sky header. From there, click the Active Skin button on the Templates Dashboard. You will be re-directed to the Active Skin editor shown in Diagram 17.

Diagram 17

To activate the template (or another template), simply select the template name from the selector shown in Diagram 17-A, then click the Save button shown in Diagram 17-B. Now, you can visit your public site and view your new site template.
Caution

The names of content regions are not pre-defined in SkyBlueCanvas. You will want to double-check that the names of the regions have not changed before installing a new template. If the names of the regions have changed, you will need to go through the steps outlined in Collections_Publishing to update where your collections appear.

Additionally, to make sure the names of the layout files have not changed. If they have changed, you will need to update the page layouts in the Page Manager as shown in Diagram 2-D in the Pages instructions.