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  • Getting Started 4
    • The Bare Minimum You Need to Understand
    • How do I Configure My ScreenSteps Software to Post to ScreenSteps Live?
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  • Manuals Intro 13
    • What is a Manual?
    • What are Chapters?
    • What are Draft Chapters?
    • How to Mark a Manual as Procedural
    • How do I Create a Manual?
    • How do I Create/Edit Chapters?
    • How do I Add Lessons to a Chapter?
    • How do I Move a Lesson From One Chapter to Another?
    • How do I Publish a Chapter in a Manual?
    • How do I Edit Manual Properties?
    • How do I Change the Draft Setting on a Manual?
    • How do I Provide a Link to a Chapter in a Manual?
    • How do I Unlock a Manual for Editing?
  • Uploading Lessons From ScreenSteps Desktop to ScreenSteps Live 6
    • How do I Upload a Lesson Directly to a Manual?
    • How do I Replace a Lesson on ScreenSteps Live?
    • How do I Send a Link to the Lesson I Just Posted?
    • How do I Update a Lesson on ScreenSteps Desktop From ScreenSteps Live?
    • Using an Upload Token to Upload Lessons to Your Account
    • How do I Reset My Upload Token?
  • Manuals On ScreenSteps Live and ScreenSteps Desktop 8
    • How do I Upload a Manual to ScreenSteps Live from ScreenSteps Desktop?
    • How do I Download a Manual from ScreenSteps Live to my ScreenSteps Desktop Library?
    • Comparing Manuals Between ScreenSteps Desktop and ScreenSteps Live
    • How do I Update My Local Manual With Changes From the Version on my ScreenSteps Live Account?
    • Updating a manual on ScreenSteps Live with changes from ScreenSteps Desktop
    • How to download changes to a single chapter from ScreenSteps Live
    • Uploading a Single Chapter to ScreenSteps Live From ScreenSteps Desktop
    • Mass Editing Lessons in a Manual: Deleting PDFs and Changing Comment Settings for Lessons
  • Spaces Intro 11
    • What is a Space and Who Can See It?
    • How do I Create a Space?
    • How do I Edit a Space?
    • How do I Make a Space Private?
    • How do I add Manuals to a Space?
    • How do I Use Permalinks?
    • How to get the public url for your Space
    • Creating Redirects
    • Deleting Redirects
    • How to Clone a Space
    • How to prevent search engines from indexing your ScreenSteps Live space
  • Lessons 7
    • How do I Permanently Delete a Lesson?
    • How do I Change the Draft Status of a Lesson?
    • How do I Set the Status of a Lesson?
    • How do I Share the URL for a Lesson From the Administration Area?
    • How do I Attach a File to a Lesson?
    • How do I Delete a File That is Attached to a Lesson?
    • How do I Download a Lesson to My ScreenSteps Library From ScreenSteps Live?
  • Tasks 6
    • Tasks Screen Overview
    • How do I Create a Task?
    • How do I Claim a Task?
    • How do I Assign a Task to Someone Else?
    • How do I See Tasks Assigned to Me?
    • How Do I See Completed Tasks?
  • Comments 7
    • How do I Enable/Disable Comments for a Lesson?
    • How do I Enable/Disable Comments for All Lessons in a Manual?
    • How do I Respond to Comments on a Lesson?
    • How Do I Receive Email Notifications When Unapproved Comments Are Created?
    • How do I Subscribe/Unsubscribe to Comments via Email for a Lesson?
    • How do I Turn On/Off Comment Moderation?
    • How do I Delete a Comment?
  • Users 10
    • What are the Different Types of Users?
    • How do I Create New Users?
    • How do I Reset a User's Password?
    • How do I Deactivate/Reactivate a User?
    • How do I Delete a User?
    • How do I Edit a User Profile?
    • Importing Reader Users From a CSV File
    • Subscribing to the ScreenSteps Live Users Newsletter
    • How do I Enable OpenID for my User Account?
    • Receive daily activity updates for your account
  • Groups 3
    • What is a Group?
    • How do I Create a Group?
    • How do I Add/Remove Readers to a Group?
  • Permissions 4
    • How do I Add an Editor to a Space?
    • How do I Add an Author to a Space and Manual
    • How do I Add Viewers to a Space?
    • How do I Embed Login Credentials in a URL?
  • Customizing Your Space 14
    • How Can I Customize My Sidebar?
    • Customizing the Colors on Your Space
    • Setting a Custom Domain Name for a Space (Host Mapping)
    • Space Descriptions and Sidebar Messages
    • How do I Add Custom CSS to my Space?
    • How do I Add Custom Javascript to my Space?
    • How do I Add Links to a Space?
    • Adding Space Dividers
    • How Do I Remove the Company Title From My Space?
    • How to hide the "Log out" link
    • How do I add tracking code to my Space?
    • How do I translate my space into a different language?
    • Activating the New ScreenSteps Live 2011 Template
    • Converting a Custom Template to the ScreenSteps Live 2011 Content Template
  • Custom Templates 6
    • Preparing a Custom Template
    • How do I Create a Custom Template?
    • How do I Apply a Custom Template to a Space?
    • Custom CSS for Custom Templates
    • Custom Template Additions
    • How to Add Logout/Profile Links to Your Custom Template
  • Account Settings 5
    • How do I Change My Company Name?
    • How do I Upload a Logo?
    • Setting a Custom Respond-to Email Address for Account Notifications
    • How do I See How Much Storage Space I Have Used?
    • Customizing your login screen
  • Plans and Billing 3
    • How do I Enter My Payment Information Before My Trial Expires?
    • How do I Change My Billing Information?
    • How do I Cancel My Account?
  • Synchronization 3
    • What Happens if Multiple People Edit the Same Lesson?
    • Upgrading to 2.8.2 or later - Uploading Unique Lessons Identifiers to ScreenSteps Live
    • Upgrading to 2.8.2 or later - Downloading Unique Lesson Identifiers From ScreenSteps Live to Other Computers
  • Troubleshooting 1
    • Errors uploading a lesson or manual

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Nov 10, 2010

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How do I Create a Custom Template?

Go to Custom Templates Screen

Go_to_custom_templates_screen

Login to your account and go to select Account > Custom Templates menu item.

Select Create a Custom Template

Select_create_a_custom_template

Enter Title and Create

Enter_title_and_create

You can name the template whatever you would like.

Paste in HTML Code

Paste_in_html_code

Paste in the HTML code for your template and select Update.

Next Steps

You will now need to apply your template to your Space before you can see your changes.

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Comments (6)

Karin H Saturday Apr 11 at 10:18 AM

Hi

Also watch the video, very clear and simple (I hope). Just want to know - because in the video it was mentioned to get rid of all javascripts - if it is possible to add web traffic tracking code like statcounter?

Blue Mango Saturday Apr 11 at 12:55 PM

Adding something like stat counter should work fine.

I am going to update this lesson on Monday to show a little bit easier way of handling the stylesheets and including some javascript in the template to make sure that the ajax functionality works.

Blue Mango Saturday Apr 11 at 01:49 PM

Actually the lesson that has the javscript information is here:
http://bmls.screenstepslive.com/spaces/screensteps/manuals/screensteps_live/lessons/2650-Preparing-a-Custom-Template

Karin H Sunday Apr 12 at 05:05 AM

Thanks for this
If the only item I want to add to the standard template I copy/paste the page source of that and add the tracking code?

Will give it a try, finding my feet around (only 1 day in ;-))

Karin H

Greg DeVore Monday Apr 13 at 06:36 AM

Karin-
That should work. I put together a quick example of using the default template. I posted the file here:

http://www.bluemangolearning.com/download/screensteps/resources/screenstepslive_example_template.html

Just view the source on it and copy and paste the text. You will want to update the logo graphic that is being referenced, as well as the company title, etc.

Karin H Monday Apr 13 at 06:42 AM

Hi Greg

Wow, is that all that's needed?!
I'd copied and pasted much more ;-) This is even better - so thanks. I like simple things.

Really starting to get to grips now, will 2.5 be launched soon?

Karin H

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