SUNScholar/Asset Presentation

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This wiki page relates to the system build and maintenance of: http://scholar.sun.ac.za

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Introduction

This/These procedure/s assume/s that you have used the three step process to install an Ubuntu server with DSpace software.

This page describes the method for customising your Dspace version 1.8.2 instance using the Manakin (XMLUI) interface with the supplied Mirage theme.

This procedure is much easier to achieve if you build yourself an Ubuntu desktop computer to use first.

Design Considerations

In the absence of an official University website style guideline we decided to try to match the theme of the library website.

The focus of the theme was to ensure that the website was pleasant to the eye to view and that it had a somber research tone.

We avoided too many pictures and animations as these take time to load on slow connections and they use up the scarce internet data allocation of users.

We applied the colors used on the other University websites as a color palette.

We kept our banner logo as simple possible to clearly convey who is providing the repository service and what the repository does.

We also tried to theme the website so that the eye is drawn quickly and easily to the elements that matter, which are the items in collections.

To ensure that our help guides (that use screenshots extensively) are reliable we removed any duplicate elements on the website, such as two places to login.

We do not post current news etc and leave that to our blog. We also do not post detailed help guides, but rather built a wiki help guide.

We added two more links to the footer to point to our wiki help guide and news blog. See: http://scholar.sun.ac.za

XMLUI Styling Help

View the following for a better understanding of XMLUI Mirage theme design using the "modules" overlay method:

View the following for official DSpace Manakin help.

Step 1 - Login to the remote server

Log into your Dspace server as the "dspace" user always when doing theme design. 

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Prepare_Ubuntu/S01

Step 2 - Create "MyTheme"

Click on the heading above.

Step 3 - Modify "MyTheme"

Click on the heading above.

Step 4 - Rebuild DSpace to compile and activate new theme as a "module" overlay

Rebuild the DSpace webapps using the custom rebuild script.

Step 5 - View new look

Type the following in the address bar and then press F5 on the keyboard to refresh your internet browser cache. 

http://%hostname%

Replace %hostname% with the hostname of your server.

Theme Repository

Check out the following theme repositories.

References

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