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Customizing your community
Customizing your community is a way of distinguishing it from other communities and attracting new membership. Possible customization options include changing the community theme, associating a distinctive graphic with the community, and adding features that bring extra functionality to the community. You must be a community owner to customize a community.
There are various ways in which you can customize your community:
- Add an image.
The graphic that you add to your community is displayed in the community business card, which reflects the community's identity and interests when displayed outside the Communities feature. By associating a meaningful image with your community, you can give the community a branding that is unique to its members. You can add an image when you first create the community, or you can edit the community at any time to add a new image.
- Add enhanced functionality.
You can customize the functionality of your community by adding content that reflect the various aspects of the community and its areas of focus. For example, if organizing project workload is a priority, adding the Activities widget allows you to create a space where members can work on project documents with a fixed duration, assign and complete tasks, and share resources. If collaboration is an important goal for your community, you might want to add the Files and Wikis widgets to allow members to share files and work together on project documents.
- Apply a new theme.
You can enhance the appearance of your community by changing the default theme. Applying a new theme changes the colors and fonts that are used in the community's user interface. Choose from the options provided with your deployment. There are a number of default themes for you to choose from, but your administrator can also make custom themes available.
- Change the layout. You can arrange your community's Overview page to prioritize specific functionality. For example, if the discussion forum is the most active part of your community, you might want to place it at the top of the page to give it priority and ensure that members see the latest posts.
- Add symbol, greek, and other fonts
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