Finding and Customizing the Logo Image

The portal_images folder has most of the images that are used in the skin of a default Plone site, things like the logo, folder icons, various buttons, etc. A fantastic resource really.

Scroll down the list till you find the logo.jpg file. Click it.

This will bring up the screen that shows the logo image and all the metadata about it.

Here is where you can see the file size, the dimensions, the ID (which in this case is just logo.jpg).

You will also see a Customize control. Click on the pull down menu and your will see two things listed (you will see more if you have created more than just our lesson skin):

• Custom - This is a sort of universal skin folder that can be used to override anything in one of the other skins. You can actually do all your customizing work in the Custom folder (and many of the books teach you this); however, it is much better to do extensive changes in a real skin, as it gets very confusing using Custom for a big project. Using Custom also restricts your ability to switch skins, which can really be problematic if you make a mistake and you can't easily switch back to the default Plone skin.
  
• a_first_skin - This is your skin folder. All our changes in the rest of this lesson will go here.

All you do is select the a_first_skin and click the Customize button.