Creating Themes in MOSS 2007
- On the SharePoint server go to the Themes folder e.g. c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\Themes
- Make a copy one of the existing theme folders and its contents rename it e.g. MyTheme.
- Rename the .INF file within the MyTheme folder to MyTheme.INF
- Edit MyTheme.INF.
- At the info section, Change the title, to MyTheme. Change codepage, e.g 22200, replacing the code page will fixing error “A theme with the name “MyTheme 1011″ and version already exists on the server.”
- In the titles section, rename the names to your new name. this section is to present the name in the different language.
- Provide an image to give a preview of your theme. This image should be placed in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES. E.g. tmbMyTheme.gif
- Modify the c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\Layouts\1033\SPTHEMES.xml to include a reference to the new MyTheme theme
<Templates>
<TemplateID>MyTheme</TemplateID>
<DisplayName> MyTheme </DisplayName>
<Description> MyTheme has a white background with blue control areas and orange highlights.</Description>
<Thumbnail>images/tmbMyTheme.gif</Thumbnail>
<Preview>images/ tmbMyTheme.gif</Preview>
</Templates>
- Modify the CSS within MyTheme folder to personalize your theme.
- Run iisreset from the command prompt
- Apply the new theme to a “test site”,.
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I do that and the error “A theme with the name “MyTheme 1011″ and version already exists on the server.” persist…
Same for me!! Error “A theme with the name “MyTheme 1011″ and version already exists on the server.” still persists. Doesn’t seem to matter what I name it.
have you change a codepage ??
Great article…
Getting the same error …. followed all the steps… changed the codepage…
“A theme with the name “MyTheme 1011″ and version already exists on the server. “
Nice posting, funny hos MS can’t include a searchfunctionality in MOSS07 admin interface. AND funny how you have to buy thirdparty books to make their software work
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I made all the changes, deleted a previously-created MySite, and then tried to recreate it,I got a 401 unauthorized error. I deleted all my changes and still I am not allowed to create MYSite.
I have the same experience as Peter — getting the 401 error consistently when trying to create a MySite in Sharepoint 2007 Server. Is this a bug? Seems like it’s a fairly common error – with recent installations; maybe there’s a patch coming?
if you get the 1011 error, rename the theme folder and the theme.inf to something similar and you should be right to go.
Kayloe,
Thanks for your post, it really helped? Not sure why, but it did.
Hello,
I always got the 1011 error until I renamed the new theme to lower case (completly).
Before this I used mixed letters but always the same exact spelling – this does not work. I think there is some place in the sharepoint code like:
C#: if(title.ToLower()==somevariable)
and microsoft programmers forgot “somevariable.ToLower()” (I forgot this several times).
I can live with lowercase -> perhaps someone can find out where to do lower and where it does not matter (SPThemes.xml, inf file, titles, folder)
Regards,
Michael
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Any change under 12 folder you must restart IIS
for me, Template does not work un root site, only on created subsites.
when trying to apply template to Root site, the error “A theme with the name ..” ocurred, so I went to SPD, opened the root site (http://test), in the folder list, folder “_themes” there was “MyTheme”, so I deleted that folder (in the file systeme nothing changed), I applied the theme to root site and everything worked.
I was like a copy of what I defined on the file system and that was the conflict.
Cheers
CE
Why do I need to change the Codepage? And to which value should I change it to? What is the codepage? Thanks!
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Dear All,
I s there any one know about any vendors who can develop new theme for WSS 3.0??
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oh yeah, pretty good
Thanks for the tip! Helped me out
i used this a few days ago, it works
thatnks for the guidance./
Thanks a lot…….
If I want to update the css of t5he theme after applying nit. Will I need to follow all these steps of only restarting the IIS the changes will be reflected?
thanks a bunch.
Wow, thanks a lot for this tutorial. Helped me learn a lot, especially as i have just started my first word press blog.
pretty good tutorial, will come in handy
Thanks for the tutorial, really useful for me
I made all the changes, deleted a previously-created MySite, and then tried to recreate it,I got a 401 unauthorized error
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Thanks man it work for meeeeeeee
Thanks for the tutorial its helped me a lot creating my theme