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