Theme Pages and site Theme :
They are related but are different entities. Theme pages are prebuilt template pages which can be copied and previewed and if needed, can be published ie replace the corresponding site pages. Site Theme on the other hand uses prebuilt property files containing different combination of fonts and colors affecting each and every page in a consistent manner. Visitors can change it to their liking and save it in their profile. A site manager can update the client file to change the default site font.
Theme pages:
Any one can scroll through and preview the theme pages at RAASPI site. But to preview and install them on a site, the site manager needs to login and access them at Tools-Theme Gallery or at SetUps-Theme Gallery
Remember at site creation time a specific theme pages was selected and installed. Theme pages cover the home page and other pages like About, Contact Us etc which a visitor can see, it does not cover any backoffice pages.
Warning! If you copy over pages with a new theme, it will replace the existing content including any text, but you can easlily copy and paste your old text into the new page content. Use the New Tab on the tool bar of a page and open the published pages ie have two tabs open, one showing loaded preview content from a theme and the other showing already published pages. Those pages which does not have a corresponding theme pages will stay as is.
Preview Only
1. Since you are already in Raaspi site, go to Start Here-Avialable Themes and select the Category or Gallery to see individual themes
2. Click on Details to view information about the theme and click on Preview Pages to see the page contents. While there you can select any other theme and see their page contents.
Preview and Install
1. Open your site in another tab
2. Login as a manager
3. go to SetUps-Theme Gallery and preview themes
4. If you want to change the current published home page then use use the link copy to Home preview page
5. To change the current published other pages like About, ContactUs etc use use the link copy to Other preview pages
6. The links will take you to the editor page, where you select the theme and then click on copy for preview. This will copy the theme pages contents over your site preview pages.
Each site page shown to visitors has 3 sets-one copy for preview, one copy as published seen by visitors and the 3rd copy backup copies of the published pages when
7. Once the theme pages are copied to your site pages, you can preview other pages or preview home page to see what the pages will look like. It will show the changed pages as well as unchanged ones for a colplete preview.
Note: The theme pages use only text data which can have both text and images inter mixed and thus easier to work with using html editor. It is possible to have image only (binary data) on site pages but needs more knowledge about how to use them. You can use SetUps-binary data to list and search and the key values like 3R-MID-TOP-M or -C. You can edit or even delete them, if needed.
8. At this point, if you want to publish the pages then click on Backup current published pages and then publish the preview pages.
9. If needed, click on restore your site preview pages from the last backup.
10. Follow steps 7 and 8 again. Make sure you allways backup your site pages you may want to go back to, if new theme pages do not work out .
Site Theme:
At the bottom of a site home page there is a tool bar showing current site theme used. There is a drop down list beside it, which can be used to change it.
If you are a signed up user for a site
1. Open the site in another tab
2. Login
3. go to SetUps-user profile and change using edit to change the site theme you like
If you are a site manager
1. Open the site in another tab
2. Login
3. go to SetUps-Client and change record 01 using edit to change the default site theme. A client record has many fields, so scroll down and at the bottom there is a drop down list to select from and a button to set the default theme. The new theme will show as soon as a page gets loaded from the server.