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I like to switch my default theme to "White Pointer" theme..On the Geeklog Demo Site on the theme list I see "White Pointer"and I like very much.Where I can download this theme ?

Try looking for it over at geekdownloads. They have lots of stuff.

Uh,thanks..I downloaded the "White Pointer 1.4.0" in zip file and I extracted the file with WinAce Archiver,so,now i got the folder with lot of subfolders of white pointer files ..Please,tell me step to step how I can transfer this theme to my website and switch profesional theme with this one..

How do I change the default theme?

It easy. One way:

Unzip the archive for the theme on your own computer. I think that particular one (white pointer theme) is named a little bit funny, so rename the top directory to White_Pointer instead of !WHitePointer1.4.0 as is is called now.

Start your FTP program and navigate to the public_html/layout directory.

You will see a subdirectory called Professional.

Move the whole White_Pointer folder to the location public_html/layout on the server so that it sits next to the Professional theme's directory.

That's it.

You may have to update for the plugins, but that's another story.

Thank You!
Now I transfered "white pointer theme" in my public_html/layout next to folder from "professional"..What is next?How I will make active "white pointer theme" in my website?

Thank You!
Now I transfered "white pointer theme" in my public_html/layout next to folder from "professional"..What is next?How I will make active "white pointer theme" in my website?

Just login and go to "preferences" under user functions. You can select theme there.

To set a specific theme as the default, you can edit the config.php. It should be clear which line to change in there.

Thank you..
I tryed to do ,but after I made sellection in my preference,I got next error:

I wrote already in another topic in this forum ( "Please HELP") same message..
What is wrong?

After much experimentation and tweaking, I found that the only way to make an alternate theme work properly is to copy the entire contents of your chosen theme to the "professional" theme folder. Don't know why it works!?!

This is a sloppy fix and means you can't make theme switching an option so if anyone has a better tactic, I'd appreciate hearing about it

peace,
Technohippie

The theme you downloaded wasn't updated for the version of GL that you're running.

in essence you did what Dirk suggested that you do when he pointed you to the "How do I change the default theme" link.

You can still have multiple themes.

Thanks again!! I figured how to do and now new theme is active..Only,still I dont know how to change my logo banner.Link from Dirk don't told my much and I still don't know how to change my logo banner..Can somebody tell me more details?

So what exactly do you not understand? Some basic HTML knowledge would come in handy, of course. But other than that, it's just a case of making a few simple changes in header.thtml.

bye, Dirk