Overview of Configuring Themes and Home Page Settings
You can configure the look and feel of your application using the Themes page of the Appearance work area.
By default, you get the Default theme for your application, which includes news feed as the default layout for your home page. The Themes list on the Themes page has a set of predefined themes:
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Default
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Redwood
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A few other themes, which we refer to as the predefined classic themes
Just like Default, the Redwood theme has news feed as the default home page layout. And the other settings for the Redwood theme, such as logo and cover image match with those for the Default theme. The predefined classic themes have panel, banner, or news feed as the default layout for the home page. You might see changes in icons, colors, and shapes of some UI components, and some might look the same no matter which theme you use.
You can create your own theme based on a predefined theme and save it. Such themes are available as saved themes in your Themes list. We are calling the saved themes that are based on predefined classic themes, as the saved classic themes.
You can change your application theme from Default to a saved theme, or any of the predefined themes. For a saved theme that's based on Default or Redwood, you can change only the logo, cover image, or both. But if you switch to any predefined or saved classic theme, you can set the default layout for your home page as panel, banner, or news feed, and configure the various look and feel aspects of your application. Here are a few settings you can change for classic themes:
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Logo
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Background image
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Panel image and style
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Size and style of the work area icons
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Style of the cards, which appear on a page in a grid view
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Shape of buttons, menus, and tabs
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Colors for the background, global region, headings, page links, and buttons