You can customize the appearance of the IBM® Unica® HTML frameset where most
IBM® Unica Marketing product pages appear. By editing a cascading style sheet and providing your own graphics, you can change many of the images, fonts, and colors in the user interface. This is sometimes called re-branding, because you can override the
IBM® logo and color scheme with your company's logo and color scheme.
The IBM® Unica® HTML frameset is formatted by a number of cascading style sheets, located in the
css directory within the
unica.war file. Several of these stylesheets import a stylesheet named
corporatetheme.css in the
css\theme directory. By default, this
corporatetheme.css file is blank. When you replace this blank file with one that uses your colors and images, you change the appearance of the frameset.
IBM® Unica® also provides an example
corporatetheme.css file, in the
css\theme\DEFAULT directory within the
unica.war file. This example stylesheet contains all of the specifications that are customizable, along with comments that explain what areas of the frameset each specification affects.You can use this file as a template for making your own changes, as described in the instructions in this section.
The size of the logo image must be no larger than 473px wide and 88px tall. The IBM® Unica® logo has these dimensions to include a semi-transparent area that overlays the background in the navigation pane, but your logo can be narrower. If you use a different size logo image, it might be necessary to add a
background-position property to the logo spec in the stylesheet (
body.navpane #header .inner).
IBM® Unica® uses sprites for some of its buttons and icons. Using sprites reduces the number of HTTP requests going to the server, and can reduce possible flickering. Where
IBM® Unica® uses sprites, the name of the image includes
_sprites. If you want to replace these images, you should use sprites with the same dimensions, as this requires the fewest modifications to the stylesheet. If you are not familiar with sprites, you can learn about them on the internet.