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Customizing Your Channel's Appearance

Mirroring An Existing Site's Header & Footer

Q: “How can I make my Magnify site look like my other existing site?”

If you have an existing site, the page header and footer can probably be copied from that site using the "view source" feature of your browser.

Typically, for the header you'll want to copy the HTML tags immediately after the <body> tag. (Do not include the <html>, <head>, or <body> tags.)

And for the footer, copy the HTML tags right before the </body> tag. (Do not include the </body> or </html> tags.)

Make sure that you copy a "balanced" section of HTML, with each opening tag matched by a closing one. (For example, if the header you're copying includes a <form> tag, make sure you also include the matching </form> tag.)

Any links or image references which use relative URLs will need to be changed to absolute links, by changing "/images/abc.jpg" to "http://your.domain.com/images/abc.jpg".

Your webmaster or site designer can help you with this, or you can just experiment until it looks right. Have fun!

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