| The "look and feel" of AOI :CMS: is controlled by HTML files called themes or
templates. The main focus of AOI :CMS: is easy creation of themes for the web pages
that will be generated by the CGI programs. This central key feature of easy theme
creation is what uniquely separates AOI :CMS: from other content management systems
available elsewhere.
Theme Directory Layout
All themes for AOI :CMS: are placed in the themes folder in the "normal" web
site directory. Please refer to installing AOI :CMS: if you are not sure of which
directory the themes folder is located.
The following is an illustrated layout of all themes for AOI :CMS:. The directory
layout is very simple and is similar to most normal static directory layouts. All
HTML files are located in one directory, named with the theme's name, and all images
are located inside an images folder.
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this_theme_name |
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images |
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index.html |
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box1.html |
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theme.txt |
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The key to theme directory success is lowercase file and
directory names with no spaces. |
The following is an illustrated layout of a theme named "cooldesign".
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cooldesign |
<- name of your theme |
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images |
<- place all of your theme's images here |
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index.html |
<- main theme layout (required) |
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box1.html |
<- main content box (required) |
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theme.txt |
<- theme information file (required) |
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Please notice that all files and directories have NO spaces. All theme
directory names and file names MUST be all lowercase.
File names may not contain the following characters:
| Character |
English Name or Postscript name |
| / |
Slash or solidus |
| \ |
Backslash or reverse solidus |
| : |
Colon |
| * |
Asterick |
| ? |
Question mark |
| " |
Quotation mark |
| < |
Less than |
| > |
Greater than |
| | |
Pipe |
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