This is a tutorial that explains how to accomplish common tasks in customizing the look and feel of your site.
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If you do not like the default visual appearance of Tiki, you can easily change it by selecting from the list of bundled themes. Tiki comes with a number of themes, or "skins," which can be easily switched for some or all pages in your site (or some or all users or Groups). For how to change a currently installed theme or install one from the theme gallery, see Themes.
Many people find that the fonts in many of the themes are too small. Of course, we tecchies know that you can increase the font size on any web site by doing Ctrl-Shift-+ in most browsers. But users of your site may not all be techies and may not know that trick. So you might still want to have Tiki use a larger font for your site.
As it turns out, you can't do that without creating your own theme You can use Custom CSS. Actually, you don't need to create your own theme so much as you need to customize a theme to increase the font sizes. You do this as follows.
These instructions are if you don't want to use Custom CSS
If you use Tiki in an organization, chances are that this organization has a particular visual branding (logo, color scheme, etc...). You probably want your Tiki site to reflect that branding. This turns out to be fairly complicated, and typically involves creating your own theme, and changing the template files.
By creating your own theme, you can specify the color scheme for the various UI elements on the site so that it matches your organization's color scheme. By changing the template files you can emulate the typical layout of your organization's sites.