Branding the control panels

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You can customize the look and feel of your users' control panels to suit your preferences or to match your company's branding. This look and feel includes the logo, banner, colors and graphics used in your users' control panels. You can reload the default settings at any time if necessary.

- You can brand your customers' control panels only; you cannot brand your top-level control panel (the site control panel that is your primary login).

What you can change

- Banners and logos

- Colors and graphics

- Padding, spacing, and font sizing

What you cannot change

- Your top-level control panel

- The title of the page displayed in the browser window

- The positioning of elements on a page

# Change control panel banners

Banners are the graphics that appear at the top of the control panels in the long space to the left or right of the logo space. You can replace the banners in the user control panels you own with any other image that:

- Has approximately the same dimensions as the default banner to ensure that control panel elements display correctly. The default banner is 1,650 pixels wide by 60 pixels tall. If a banner is too long to be displayed, it slides under the logo.

- Is in .gif or .jpg format.

- Is no larger than 46 KB in size.

To change the banners:

1. Go to the branding files page
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2. In the Banner section, click Browse next to the user control panel text box, then navigate to the file you want to use for the banner.

3. Click Open.

4. To keep the current banner for any control panel, leave the text box blank.

5. Click Upload Changes.

The new banner appears in the control panel. To view it, log in to the user control panel. If you do not see the change, your browser might be using a previously cached version of the banner. Refresh your browser's cache to view the change (in Internet Explorer, press Ctrl while clicking the browser's refresh button).

Changes are not displayed in the control panel that is your primary login.

# Add your logo

The logo is the graphic that appears to the left or right of the banner at the top of the control panel. You can replace the default logo with any graphic that:

- Has approximately the same dimensions as the default graphic to ensure that interface elements display correctly. The default graphic is 157 pixels wide by 60 pixels tall.

- Is in .gif or .jpg format.

- Is no larger than 46 KB.

To upload your logo:

1. Go to the branding files page
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2. In the Logo section, click Browse next to the user control panel text box, then navigate to the file you want to upload.

3. Click Open.

4. Next to Logo Position, choose Left to display the logo in the upper left of the control panel, or choose Right to display the logo in the upper right.

5. If you want to change the position of the logo, you need to navigate to the logo file as described in step 2; you cannot simply change the position by choosing left or right.

5. To keep the current logo for any control panel, leave the text box blank.

6. Click Upload Changes.

The graphic appears in the control panel. To view it, log in to the user control panel. If you do not see the change, your browser might be using a previously cached version of the logo. Refresh your browser's cache to view the change (in Internet Explorer, press Ctrl while clicking the browser's refresh button).

Changes are not displayed in the control panel that is your primary login.

# Reload default settings

You can reload the default banners, and logos used in the control panels at any time. If you are a reseller or site administrator, the defaults are the settings currently used by your service provider; they change whenever your service provider rebrands control panels.

To reload default settings:

- On the branding files page
  , click Restore Default next to any item you want to reload.

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