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Version: V12

How to Customize your Portal's Homepage

Branding is essential to your VIDIZMO Portal as it significantly impacts your users' experience and strongly emphasizes your brand voice, theme, or tone. VIDIZMO provides the tools to customize various aspects of your Portal, such as your Portal thumbnail or header.

In addition, you can customize various aspects of your Portal's user interface (UI) using custom CSS. The UI elements each have a predefined CSS class that you can utilize when writing your CSS code for customizations.

You can customize the UI elements displayed on your Portal's home page to alter or modify its appearance. The home page is the default page of your EVCM Portal and showcases your most popular or active media. You can customize the carousels that display trending Media and the banner that displays featured Media. VIDIZMO also provides CSS classes to customize additional UI elements on the home page, such as the featured category carousel, tag cloud, and featured Portals display.

Note: Please note that the class availability depends on the type of VIDIZMO product you are using, whether you have the required permissions, and whether a certain feature is available in your product.

Prerequisites​

  • Ensure that you have Portal Management permission to access Portal settings.
  • To use Custom CSS, ensure you have access to the Branding feature via group permission or CAL.

CSS Customization Scenarios​

  1. Open the navigation menu via the button on the top left.
  2. Click the 'Admin' dropdown.
  3. Click 'Portal Settings.'
  4. Click Branding.
  5. Select Customize.
  6. Enter the code for your customizations in the Custom CSS section.
  7. Click the 'Update' button to apply the modifications. We recommend refreshing your browser to see the changes on your Portal.

Note: To obtain the CSS class of a specific UI element, right-click and inspect it using your browser's developer tools. A CSS class is indicated by the 'vdz-' prefix.

  1. You can make your homepage more appealing by customizing the headings on it. In this example, we will use the CSS selector .vdz-featuredportal-heading to modify the 'Featured Portals' heading.
  2. Here is a code snippet for modifying the heading by changing its font, font size and color.
.vdz-featuredportal-heading {
font-size: 10px;
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
color: purple;
}

Scenario 2: Hiding Banner Arrow Buttons​

  1. To lock or restrict your Portal banner to one view, you can hide the banner arrow buttons using the .vdz-bannerarrow-left and .vdz-bannerarrow-right CSS selectors.
  2. Paste the following code snippet in the custom CSS section.
.vdz-bannerarrow-left {
display: none !important;
}

.vdz-bannerarrow-right {
display: none !important;
}

Note: In addition to customizing UI elements using their CSS classes, you can write code to make these customizations specific to CAL on your VIDIZMO Portal. Learn more here: How to Perform CAL Specific CSS Customizations

ClassDescription
vdz-featuredportal-headingthis will change featured portal heading on portal page
vdz-portal-statsallows modification of portal stats of Portals marked as featured on the home page

CSS Classes for Media Carousels​

ClassDescription
vdz-MashupsMostMostRecent-headingallows modification of the 'Most Recent Media' heading present on the Portal home page
vdz-MashupsMostMostPopular-headingallows modification of the 'Most Popular Media' heading present on the Portal home page
vdz-MashupsMostMostViewed-headingallows modification of the 'Most Viewed Media' heading present on the Portal home page
vdz-homepage-mashupallows modification of the mashup cards of mashup/Media present under headings on Portal home page
vdz-mashuptype-iconallows modification of the icon present in replacement of a thumbnail
vdz-live-iconallows modification of the live icon present on the Live mashup format
vdz-mashup-progressallows modification of the progress bar shown on the mashup thumbnails/mashup cards
vdz-mashup-updateddateallows modification of the last updated date status of the mashup present on the Portal homepage
vdz-carousel-nextallows modification of the next buttons on homepage carousel sections
vdz-carousel-prevallows modification of the previous buttons on homepage carousel sections
ClassDescription
vdz-featured-carouselallows modification of the featured media carousel on the Portal homepage
vdz-featuredvideo-thumbnailallows modification of thumbnails of featured media
vdz-featurevideo-titleallows modification of title of featured media
vdz-bannerarrow-leftallows modification of the left arrow on carousel that has featured media
vdz-bannerarrow-rightallows modification of the right arrow on carousel that has featured media

CSS Classes for Tag Cloud​

ClassDescription
vdz-tag-btnallows modification of the tags shown on the Portal homepage under 'Tag Cloud'
vdz-tags-headingallows modification of the 'Tag Cloud' heading present on the Portal's homepage

Diagnostics​

  • At times you might want to use !important if the changes are not being reflected.
  • Another reason that changes might not be affected is if the UI element has multiple or Nested CSS classes on it. You can check the CSS class of a certain element by checking from your browser's developer tools.
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