Creating Themes
Exchange 2000 Server OWA and Exchange Server 5.5 OWA have the same general appearance on all computers. However, Exchange 2003 OWA lets you create coordinated graphics and color schemes that users can select or that you can set as the default scheme. This capability lets you change OWA's appearance to match corporate branding, logo, or appearance requirements.
Creating themes is straightforward. You begin by creating a new subdirectory for the theme files in the \program files\exchsrvr\exchweb\themes directory. You'll notice that this directory already contains five theme subdirectories, conveniently named 0 through 4. If you look in those directories, you'll see the 10 files that you can customize to create your own theme. Figure 1 shows the areas in the OWA window that some of these files customize:
Logo2.gif is the 179 * 36 pixel "branding" logo, which by default displays the Microsoft Office symbol and "Outlook Web Access" text, as Figure 1 shows. You can replace this file with your company logo or other graphic. Scaling the graphic to approximately the same size as the default graphic will improve the appearance of the finished theme.
Nb-bkgd.gif is a 1 * 26 pixel strip that contains the background color for the navigation bar on the left side of the OWA window. Microsoft-supplied themes all use a subtle top-to-bottom color gradient in this file, but you can make your background color solid if you want to.
Nb-hide-ql.gif is a 50 * 8 pixel image that appears in the left-hand navigation pane. The default image is a small horizontal strip with a triangle in the middle that you click to hide or expand the navigation bar that replaced the original Outlook bar (which contained icons for the Inbox, the Options page, and various Outlook folders).
Nb-show-ql.gif is a 50 * 8 pixel image that contains the icon that appears when the navigation bar is hidden. Ideally, this image should be similar to the nb-hide-ql.gif image.
Nb-ql-tgl.gif is a 1 * 26 pixel background image that appears behind the nb-hide-ql.gif and nb-show-ql.gif images. Ideally, this image should use colors that complement the colors you use for nb-hide-ql.gif and nb-show-ql.gif.
Nb-sel-bkgd.gif is a 1 * 26 pixel strip that supplies the background highlight color for the icons in the navigation bar.
Nin-bg.gif is a 130 * 126 pixel image that contains the background for OWA's pop-up new-mail notifications. A cool way to customize this image is to use an image-processing program (e.g., Adobe Systems' Adobe Illustrator) to incorporate your company logo faintly into the image.
Tool-bkgd.gif is a 1 * 32 pixel that appears as the background for the toolbar at the top of the OWA window and for unselected buttons in the navigation bar.
Resize-dot.gif is a 1 * 1 pixel image that, as far as I can determine, isn't used.
I cannot edit logon.asp in FrontPage 2003. Will someone please explain in detail how to: "customize the appearance of logon.asp more extensively by editing it with Microsoft FrontPage. Thanks
JimG November 18, 2004
I have a account and I am logged on, but I still don't see the full article
please help: marc@hofstee.nl
hofstee-ict March 25, 2006 (Article Rating: )
Don't use Frontpage to edit the logon.asp file, use notepad because you don't want to mess up the VB Scripting in it. Remember to make a copy of the original logon.asp before you start to make changes to it.
avilapaul@hotmail.com March 12, 2008 (Article Rating: )
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JimG November 18, 2004