In this exercise you will personalize the look and feel of your website. We will cover the most common changes that can quickly be applied. These changes are:

1- Changing your node's logo
2- Changing the banner
3- Changing the fonts and colors
4- Changing some text in the site

Changing your node's logo

Your metadata is identified by a small logo of your own organization. By default a small, non-specific logo is set up to be displayed with your own metadata. Of course that logo should be replaced with your own logo to ensure your users correctly identify the source of the metadata record in a result set.


Logo's identifying the source organization

Your logo should have a size of 40x40 pixels to ensure best display quality. Store your logo in the GeoNetwork installation directory in the \web\images\logos folder. You will find some other logos in the same folder.

Open the file sources.xml in a text editor. You will find this file in the \web\xml folder. Change the file name of your nodes logo to match your logo's name:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<sources>
    <source>
        <code>geonetwork-fao-b3</code>              <!-- your node's identifier -->
        <logo>/images/logos/my-org.gif</logo>        <!-- your logo's filename -->
    </source>
    <source>
        <code>fao</code>
        <logo>/images/logos/fao.gif</logo>
    </source>

Changing the banner

The banner of your GeoNetwork can be easily changed by replacing the default graphics with graphics of your own organization. We will go through this process in two steps.

1. Store the banner graphics in the required folder
2. Update the banner XSL transformation document

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