GeoMOOSE 2 has greatly simplified the skinning and CSS required to change elements of the interface.
In the current distribution the easiest to modify skin is the “blue” skin. The directory has sub-directories so it will be necessary to do a recursive copy (the default on windows):
cd htdocs/skins
cp -r blue myskin
This is just a small step to keep things clean:
cp blue.css myskin.css
Open myskin.css in a text editor and change the code! After following step 3 you’ll see the changes in the interface.
Open “geomoose.html” in a text editor. In the <head> section there should be a tag starting <link... which mentions the skin. Comment out all of the skins you will not be using and add a <link> tag including your skin.
This is the default geomoose.html with the myskin skin selected:
<!--
This is where your skin is defined.
For an example, comment out the line containing "green.css" and
uncomment "blue.css".
-->
<!--<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="skins/green/green.css"/> -->
<!--<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="skins/blue/blue.css"/> -->
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="skins/myskin/myskin.css"/>
While some folks may want to change the entire look of the site you may only wish to change the header image to match your website. Follow all three steps above. This creates a unique skin for your site. Then change to the skin’s image directory:
cd htdocs/skins/myskin/images
In that directory is the “logo_top.jpg” image. This is the image that is used in the header, it is 670 pixels by 59 pixels. Making a replacement image of similar size (the height is especially important) will change the logo atop the website!