Overview

There are two ways to get to the “Edit Branding Style” page. After creating a new style through the “Create / Upload Branding” page, you are given a success page which also supplies a link to it. The second way is through clicking on “Edit This Style” in the “Available Branding Styles” listing on the “Branding Editor” page.

Using either of these ways will bring you to the “Edit Branding Style” page. On this page, you are shown two different methods to edit the style. You may choose to use the “Basic Branding Editor” or the “Advanced Branding Editor”.

Overview

Clicking on this option on the “Branding Editor” page will bring you to a page that serves two functions. The ability to download branding styles for offline editing and deleting nonofficial branding styles.

Downloading Styles

• Download (System) – Indicates an “Official cPanel Style”. Clicking on this option will allow you to download the official style for offline editing. It is recommended that you rename the style before uploading it so that you are able to quickly find it in the “Available Branding Styles” listing if you are not using a custom thumbnail.
• Download (Yours) – Indicates a custom style. This can be an edited version of an official style or a style from scratch. Clicking on this option will allow you to download the custom style for offline editing. It is recommended that you keep the same name when uploading the style to avoid created another new style, unless you intend to make a new custom style based on a custom style that is already installed.

  Once the style finishes downloading, find the .tar.gz file you downloaded and expand it. The .tar.gz will expand and create a new folder named as the style you downloaded. Rename that folder to identify the new style and differentiate it from others in the listing of “Available Branding Styles” once you .tar.gz the folder and upload it. You can now edit the style by replacing or editing images, text, HTML and CSS.

Deleting Styles

You cannot delete “Official cPanel Styles”. Knowing this it should be mentioned that clicking on the “Delete Style” option would only delete the modified version of an “Official cPanel Style” (Yours). When you click on “Delete Style” you will be asked if you want to permanently delete this style. Click on Yes or No depending on your intentions.

Overview

This option on the “Branding Editor” page when clicked on will bring you to a page that serves as two functions. It gives you the ability to create a new branding style and the ability to upload a new branding style from your hard-drive that you may have created or edited offline.

Create a New Branding Style

This option allows you to create a copy of the current default style and makes it into a new style. It is then added to and listed in the “Available Branding Styles” section on the “Branding Editor” page.

Type in the name of the new style you would like to create and click on Create. You will see a success message letting you know that you just created a new style. You will be offered the ability to jump right to editing this new style online (for more info see “Editing Branding Styles Online“) at the bottom of the page reporting the success of creating this new style.

Upload a New Branding Style

This option allows you to upload an edited style or new style from your hard-drive. Once the upload is completed, the new style can be found in the listing of “Available Branding Styles” on the “Branding Editor” page.

To upload a branding style click on Browse… and navigate to where the .tar.gz file is that you archived, select it and commit to uploading the file. You will now see the path to the file on your computer in the text area next to Browse… and the file will begin uploading once you click on Upload.

NOTE: Branding styles can contain any of the images in “Edit Header and Footer Images”, “Edit Main Page Icons”, “Edit UI”, “Edit Preview Images” and a local.css style-sheet. All of these are options you will find on the “Edit Branding Style” page when editing a style online.

Any images that are not included from those sections will appear as the default images for the style. A branding style should be a .tar.gz archive containing only images with the same names as the filenames listed in each branding editor section. Branding styles must have all files in the root of the archive. Files in subdirectories will be ignored.