Visionary is a Free SharePoint theme for MOSS 2007.
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The free SharePoint theme is designed with one thing in mind, simplicity. It strips out most of the default SharePoint background images in favor for solid colors. The three main colors used is vivid definable red, soft light brown, and soft medium brown.
The theme comes with 8 files:
- LAYOUTS/
- 1033/
- STYLES/
- visionary/
- globaltitlearea.gif
- logo.png
- navshape.jpg
- topnav.gif
- topnavhover.gif
- visionary.css
- visionary/
- SPTHEMES.XML
- STYLES/
- 1033/
- THEMES/
- VISIONARY/
- theme.css
- VISIONARY.INF
- VISIONARY/
The Visionary Free SharePoint theme is a hybrid theme and utilizes file placement out of the normal SharePoint theme folder. SharePoint uses an internal caching of CSS and image files when a theme is activated on a site. If for example you wanted to update the theme’s font color, text size, or background image normally you would have to reset the Internet Information Service and reapply the theme.
With the hybrid, the CSS and background images are loaded through CSS imports from the LAYOUTS folder. Ultimately if you were to make a change the site, it would update as expected; with a simple refresh.
It’s an additional step, but if you’re like me and apply the theme to multiple sites at a time… you’re saving yourself headache and time by using a hybrid.
Installation Instructions:
- Copy the “THEMES/VISIONARY” folder to “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\THEMES\VISIONARY”
- Copy the “LAYOUTS/1033/SPTHEMES.XML” to “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033″
- copy both the “LAYOUTS/1033/STYLES/visionary.css” and “LAYOUTS/1033/STYLES/visionary/” to “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\STYLES”
- In your SharePoint site, apply the theme by going to “Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Modify All Site Settings-> Look and Feel -> Site Theme” and select the “Visionary” theme at the bottom, and click “Apply”.
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, great design. Thank you and sucess!.
thanks good tips
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This template has caused all my other templates to go haywire I can’t switch theme back to any old and it throws an error
Cannot make a cache safe URL for “styles/portal.css”, file not found. Please verify that the file exists under the layouts directory.
as well as Cannot make a cache safe URL for “styles/core.css”, file not found. Please verify that the file exists under the layouts directory.
Will have to do a full reinstall of Sharepoint to clean up templates from these corrupt files any other suggestions
Are you running SharePoint 2007 or 2010?
Also, I believe the issue is that you copied the entire STYLES folder instead of copying the files inside of the STYLES folder.
Can you verify that the file C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\STYLES\core.css exists?
I decided to fix yours instead of trying to fix the others so far so good however I still need to figure out how to get back to defaults just in case.
I restarted IIS reapplied old ones they all keep tapping into your portal CSS..
and it seems your suggestion was the fix thanks … the core.css went bye bye
Hi There
i followed the article exactly right but the visionary theme is not appearing in my themes collection.. I even done iisreset..
But no visionary theme appearing
Hi There
i followed the article exactly right but the visionary theme is not appearing in my themes collection.. I even done iisreset..
But no visionary theme appearing
Danish, are you logged in under the System Administrator account, or account that has sufficient privileges to execute the tasks defined in the guide?
Hi Tim
I am logged in via MOSS Administrator.
I have executed all the tasks defined.