Looking for a way to make your site stand out? If your site is powered by phpWebSite then you have quite a few options because this little known CMS (Content Management System) might not be the most popular on the block, but it certainly lends itself to a great level of customization that is helping it climb the ranks. With phpWebSite themes, you are going to be able to make your site look the way you want it to, but not all of us have time to create our own theme. In this instance, you will want to check out the pre-made themes that are often, just like phpWebSite itself, open source and totally free for you to use.
If you have ever used any other CMS then you will most likely have a general idea of how theme changing works in sites that are built using the script by phpWebSite. It’s more complex than most, but that is simply because the script was not designed for absolute beginners so there is not a lot of hand-holding going on. Still, even if you are a rank amateur to web design, enough determination can power you through this process.
Here’s how changing your phpWebSite works:
Obviously, the first thing you need to do is locate which of the phpWebSite templates you like, grab the theme file you want and download it to your computer. This is generally a tar.gz file and you will be placing this on the server. You will need to place the theme file in the the subdirectory ‘themes’ of your phpWebSite installation.
This is where it can get tricky and the installation of any phpWebSite theme or template is going to come with its own documentation. Reading these guides or docs is very important because while the generalities of theme and template installation for phpWebSite are usually correct for most third party themes out there, this is not guaranteed to be the case. The guide you are reading now is intended to supplement that documentation so that if it is poorly written, you can still have a basic grasp of what you need to do. Please keep in mind, not all of the guides and documentation for open source software and scripts such as phpWebSite are written by those who speak English as a first language and therefore, you may find that you encounter linguistic or grammatical problems that make reading the documentation difficult.
The process for setting up your theme is extremely simple once you have made sure this is the theme you want to use or at least try. Simply log into your phpWebSite under your admin account, go to the ‘Control Panel’ link and click that. Click the ‘Administrator’ tab and then, within that tab, click ‘Layout Admin’. Select your chosen theme and to the right of that theme will be a button titled ‘Set Default Theme’ which you will need to click on. After that, click the ‘Close Panel’ button and view your site.
While it may not be quite as simple as some of the other CMS’s out there, phpWebSite’s theme changing process really isn’t all that complicated.
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