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  <atom:subtitle type="xhtml"><html:div xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><html:p>As of release 0.5, FinScribe is completely Themeable. In addition to the default (ugly and boring) theme, we've got a few, much nicer themes that we've ported from other applications such as WordPress. We'll make them available here, so that you can make your FinScribe installation a little prettier.</html:p><html:p class="paragraph"/>
To install a new theme, simply download the theme file and untar it into your <html:b class="bold">FinScribe/themes</html:b> directory. Once you've done that, you'll need to set the <html:b class="bold">site.theme</html:b> preference to the name of the theme you'd like to use. To do that, do the following:<html:p class="paragraph"/>
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./fin_serve --hilfe PathToFinScribe yourconfigname&#xD;
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at the prompt, run the following command:<html:p class="paragraph"/>
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  application-&gt;get_sys_pref(<html:i><html:font color="darkred">"site.theme"</html:font></html:i>)[<html:i><html:font color="darkred">"Value"</html:font></html:i>] = <html:i><html:font color="darkred">"yournewthemename"</html:font></html:i>;&#xD;
  quit&#xD;
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And that's it! To switch back to the default theme, simply follow the above commands, and use the theme name "default".<html:p class="paragraph"/>
Also, it's worth noting that you can customize the sidebar that's included with FinScribe, and used by all of the themes. The sidebar's content is stored in a document called theme/default/portlet-1, and you can access it by going to your site's index page. It will be listed under "P" for "portlet-1.<html:p class="paragraph"/>
<html:h3 class="heading-1">Writing your own Themes</html:h3><html:p class="paragraph"/>
See our <html:a href="/space/pike/FinScribe/Theme Development">Theme Development</html:a> page.<html:p class="paragraph"/>
<html:h3 class="heading-1">Available themes</html:h3><html:p class="paragraph"/>
<html:b class="bold">Prozac</html:b> <html:a href="Download" class="wiki_link_external">http://hww3.riverweb.com/dist/FinScribe/themes/prozac.tgz</html:a><html:p class="paragraph"/>
<html:b class="bold">Almost Spring</html:b> <html:a href="Download" class="wiki_link_external">http://hww3.riverweb.com/dist/FinScribe/themes/almost-spring.tgz</html:a><html:p class="paragraph"/>
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