Illustrated Guide to Portal Graphics

You can easily customize the appearance of the SAS Information Delivery Portal by modifying or replacing the main graphical elements. The images that can be modified or replaced are the banner, the background image, and the company logo. These images are stored as Graphical Interchange Format (GIF) files in the themes\default directory of the portal application.

The default graphics are shown in the following illustration:

• Banner_primary.gif. This image is stretched across the top of the portal's interface. You can use any of these methods to modify the banner:

  • Use a graphics program to modify the Banner_primary.gif file.

  • Create or obtain a new image, and save it in the default directory using the name Banner_primary.gif. (The new file should replace the original one.)

  • Use a solid color in the banner area instead of an image. To do so, you must modify the bannerBackground class in the Portal.css style sheet.

• Background.gif. This background image is tiled in the main, or working, area of the portal's interface. You can use any of these methods to modify the background:

  • Use a graphics program to modify the Background.gif file.

  • Create or obtain a new image, and save it in the default directory using the name Background.gif. (The new file should replace the original one.)

  • Use a solid color in the working area instead of an image. To do so, you must modify the workarea class in the Portal.css style sheet.

• Logo.gif. This file contains the SAS logo, which has a transparent background. To replace it, you can move your organization's logo to the default directory and rename it to logo.gif. The new file should replace the original one.