Themes

A themeA saved set of visual choices, colours, fonts, and corner style, that sets how your public site looks. You build a theme on top of one of the built-in base themes and can add your own styling. A theme applies to your whole site by default and can be overridden for individual events. sets how your public site looks: its colours, fonts, and corner style. You build themes here, then apply one to your whole site or to an individual event.

Building a theme

Website / CMS → Themes → New theme

The theme editor, with Settings, Colours, and CSS tabs and a live preview.

Every theme starts from a base theme, a ready-made look that supplies sensible defaults. You then change only what you want; anything you leave blank keeps the base theme’s value.

Settings

• Base theme is the starting look your theme builds on.
• Body font and heading font are chosen from a curated list.
• Corner radius sets how rounded buttons and cards are, from square to fully rounded.

Colours

Set six main colours, such as primary, background, and text, with a further set of advanced colours available when you need them. Any colour you leave blank inherits from the base theme.

Watch the contrast warnings

If a colour combination is hard to read, the editor shows a contrast warning. Adjust the colours until the warning clears so your text stays legible.

Custom CSS

The CSS tab lets you add your own styling on top of the theme. An Insert variable helper adds references to your theme’s colours and fonts.

A live preview beside the editor updates as you work. You can switch it between different parts of your site, such as content pages, forms, and registration.

Applying a theme

Building a theme does not switch your site to it. You apply a theme in your site Settings.

Themes are applied in Settings

Open Settings and set your site’s theme there. You can set a default theme for the whole site and override it for an individual event. Where an event sets no theme, it uses the site default; where the site sets none, EventDrake uses its standard look.

Logo, banner, and other branding

Your logo, banner images, and site icon are set in Settings alongside your theme, not in the theme editor. Like themes, they can be set for the whole site and overridden per event. See Image assets for the full list and the size and format to use for each.