Themes and skins are two complementary tools that could be used to customize the appearance of pages and controls. Telerik Sitefinity is shipped with samples of themes and
skins and you can also build your own.
Themes
Themes are a collection of property settings that define the appearance of pages and controls on a Web site. They could be applied to pages or templates. By using themes you
can control the look and feel of pages or templates without affecting their functionality. Themes can include:
- Cascading style sheet files (.css)
- Skin files (.skin)
- Graphics files
Skins
Skins customize the graphical appearance of individual controls (such as Button or Label) without affecting their functionality. Control skin settings are like a control's
markup - they contain only the properties that you want to set as a part of a theme. You can create skin files (.skin) in the theme folder. Skins of
different controls could be placed in different files or in one and the same file.
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