Website customization - themes
Wild Apricot allows you to customize your webpages and online forms in a variety of ways.
As a starting point, you can select from a variety of themes (templates) provided within your account. You may also customize any of these themes with 'point and click' (See: Customizable colors and styles)
To select a theme go to Settings / Visual look and feel / Visual theme and you will see the following screen:
Selected theme will define such common elements as:
- Colors, shapes and shades used in your header, footer and left-side menu
- Text styles in web page editor (Heading 1, Heading 2 etc.)
- Matching visual styles in online forms
- Location of the login box (left or top)
- Height and width of header/footer and left side menu
You can change the theme at any time - all your web pages content, events and member records will stay intact - so that you can instantly see how your site would look with a certain theme.
We already provide 27 themes in all kinds of colors - and will be adding more in the future. If you do not find a theme which matches what you need - do not despair! These are just starting points - you can proceed to customize your Wild Apricot website in fine detail.
You will notice that some themes are marked with an asterisk. These are simpler themes, which are especially easy to customize via CSS - see below.
First of all, 2. Page header customization allows you to insert pictures, texts and anything else into page header.
Second, customization of colors and styles allows you to quickly change background colors, text color and style across the whole site - to match your desired look.
And then we have 5. CSS Customization feature which provides you with direct and detailed control over all aspects of the look and feel of your website - you can change colors, fonts, tweak the layout and all kinds of fun stuff - to make your site as pretty or as ugly as you like 
.
Feel free to follow our examples in the Knowledge Base and tweak it as much as you want, but if you feel that you are over your head with all this CSS and JavaScript stuff, let us know and we can help you to design a custom theme for your organization.
See also:
