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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

 

Details on how to make a theme could be found in the topic Working with Themes. 

 

 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.

 

More on skin files could be found in the topic Working with Skins.

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