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Chapter 7. Customizing Pages & Templates

Customization in ShutterBug involves various methods and occurs on 4 different levels.

The customization features provide a broad flexibility in that you can customize

anything and everything, from the page elements, to the templates, to entire themes.

Every page in your website can be customized to be different from one page to the

next. This chapter divides the how to of customization into 3 sections: Simple Page

Customization, Detailed Page Customization, Theme Customization, & Template

Customization. The latter 2 go hand in hand, and are therefore grouped together in the

same section.

To recap, Chapter 6 discussed how to use the layout tools to edit certain elements to

create your own design. We focused on using the tools to apply changes to one page

only. This section takes you to the next step in showing how you can take your new

design (or a canned theme) and customize individual pages, while building an entire

theme that contains your own customized templates.

If this is as clear as mud, not to worry, we will attempt to take you through the stages of

customization from simple to more detailed, in that order.

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Customizing pages by applying different templates to different pages, all from

within the Preview window.

Customizing pages by editing the elements of different pages and/or editing the

elements of templates applied to different pages.

Customizing entire themes and templates, adding new templates to your pages,

copy settings feature, and converting custom pages to templates.

Naming templates, selecting an icon for the template thumbnail, and deleting

unused templates from the template drawer.

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