Question

Design standard theme for multiple sites?

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Im looking into designing a theme mimicking our company's website that will be used for multiple mendix projects. How realistic is this goal or will the theme need to be tweaked for each individual project? The documentation seems to recommend modifying an existing theme rather than building one from scratch. However when I look at the app store their are only 2 themes compatible with v3. Is their a 'skeleton' theme available to work off of? Thanks

asked 2011-08-24

James Chetwood

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I believe that the main theming problem lie arround the tab controler widget. If you figure out what the new layout is for the tab control i suggest you use firebug to detect the layout in a standard mendix 3.0 theme. You can also take a look at the default theming which is located in your deployment directory after you deployed your mendix 3.0 project without any theme selected.

answered 2011-08-26

Pieter van de Braak

Samet Kaya · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-24

Your goal could be realistic. If you're going to use 1 theming for multiple projects. Then you should create 1 theming. You can create this from an existing theme or build it completely yourself.

Editing an existing theme is always preferred, because creating a new one from scratch could be difficult. Especially when you're new to mendix and don't know the theming structure.

So for 2.5, you can download a default theme-package. Don't know if this one is also applicable for mendix v3. Then you could edit this one to make it look like your corporate website. Of course you could use a mendix v3 theming from the appstore to edit. That's it.

Maybe the Mendix guys should explain if this theme package is still applicable for v3 and if there are changes between the mendix v2.5 and v3.0 theming model.