Sun Java System Messenger Express 6 2005Q4 Customization Guide

Modifying the Login Screen

This section describes how to modify the Messenger Express Login screen shown in Modifying the Login Screen.

Figure 2–1 Sun Java System Messenger Express Login Screen.

Messenger Express Login Screen

You can modify the following on the Sun Java System Messenger Express Login screen:

To Modify the Login Screen

To modify the Login Screen, edit the lang/default.html file.

Customize the user interface by editing the body of lang/default.html. Functionally, lang/default.html contains three forms, two visible and one hidden:


Note –

lang is the language specific file that you need to edit.


Example—Login Screen Modifications

The example shown in Example—Login Screen Modifications replaces the Sun logo with a custom graphic and adds an advertisement banner with a link.

Figure 2–2 Example Login Screen Modifications

In this figure Sun ONE logo is replaced with a custom graphic
and  an advertisement banner with a link is added to the Login Screen.

Example—Login Screen Modifications shows the Login screen HTML before editing the en/default.html file to customize the Login screen. Example—Login Screen Modifications


Example 2–1 Before Altering Login Screen Features


....
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "\>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="master-style.css" type="text/css"\>
....
<BODY marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"
rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" bgcolor="#800000"\>
....
<td rowspan="4" valign="bottom"\><img src="imx/sun_logo.gif"
width="96" height="66"\></td\>
....
<td\><img src="imx/WebMail_splash.gif" width="200" height="30"
alt="Sun Messaging Server"\></td\>
....
<td bgcolor="#cccccc"\>
....

            

Example—Login Screen Modifications shows the changes to be made in the en/default.html file to replace the Sun logo with a custom graphic and add an advertisement banner with a link in the Login screen.


Example 2–2 After Altering Login Screen Features


....
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "\>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="master-style.css" type="text/css"\>
....
<BODY marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"
rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" bgcolor=
               "#ffffff"
               \>
....
<td rowspan="4" valign="bottom"\><img src="imx/
               siroe.gif
               "
width="96" height="66"\></td\>
....

               <td\><a href=”http://www.siroe.com”\>
               

               <img src="imx/ad.gif" width="450" height="50"
               

               alt="Advertisement Banner tip"\></a\><BR\>
               

               <img src="imx/siroewebservice.gif" width="200" height="30"
               

               alt="Siroe Webmail Service"\>
               
.....
<td bgcolor=
               "#C0C0C0"
               \>
....