OK, I'm putting this in the realm of a hack, because I'm really not sure if we'll be supporting it in the future. Also, this may not mean much to you unless you have some webdev chops or experience. 

Basically, you can drop styles into a pod and override the default Sixent styles. Using this technique, you can change pretty much anything about how a Sixent page is displayed.

Just find the name or names of the styles you want to override, create a new pod with "custom content", add a CSS <style> tag, and add the styles as you'd like them.

Here's a video showing how you can use this technique to change the background image for the grey banner at the top of a page:

In case you didn't catch them, here are the steps:

1. First, find the image you want to use as a banner. This can be pretty much anything on the web. Your main concern really should be that it's an image that you're allowed to use. Either upload the image to Sixent and grab the URL, or just take the URL from an existing image (again, if you have permission to do so).


2. Go to the site page where you want to apply the new look.


3. Click "Add", and choose to add a new pod.


4. Choose "Custom Content".


5. Make sure "Custom Content" is selected.


6. Now you should be editing a blank text area. Enter something like this:

   	
   <style>
     #rm-view #rm-viewHead { background: url(http://somesite.com/image.jpg) repeat-x; }
   </style>	
   
   

   (Obviously you want to enter the actual URL of the image above.) Now "repeat-x" means that the image is going to tile horizontally. You may or may not want that... just experiment till you get things the way you want.


7. Now click the "Appearance" tab for the pod configuration.


8. Make the pod borderless and the title bar invisible.


9. Apply.

If you did things correctly, you should see your image tiled across the banner!

That's very cool, but it's only the beginning. You can change the basic font face and size. Make titles different colours. Put background images right across the page. If you were really keen, you could even change the basic images that make up a pod border and have your own style.

Like I said, this is a bit of a hack. I'm not sure how long we'll leave it in place... but anyway, have fun for the time being. ;)

Patrick