The themes that you concoct in the Styles Dash you can name, save, and restore. Please remember that the banner and sub-banner areas of your webpages can be filled with images, textures, and colors. The images and textures are stored in the BoxPressThemes folder, inside your img folder. Images and textures must be assigned to their notes with the attributes invoked by the stamp. For more see the Theme Folder Widget entry above.

All the dash settings except for banner title, banner subtitle, and About blurb. Omitting the banner title, banner subtitle, and About blurb is intentional—a “theme” should only change appearance, not text. Of course, you can manually include these as well—just add them manually!

To see how this is done, let’s change the current theme to one of the presets. To change a theme in BoxPress you run a Theme Button. Running a button in BoxPress just means opening it and unchecking its $RuleDisabled key attribute.

STEP 1. Select the the Theme button you want to apply:

STEP 2. Now hit ⌘5 to view that note in the Text Pane. Uncheck the $RuleDisabled key attribute and the theme is applied:

STEP 3. To avoid hogging up Tinderbox activity, I made the rule that update the backgrounds of three of the dash notes manual. Uncheck the checkboxes for NavNorm, DashSubtitle, and DashDate to update their backgrounds to match the backgrounds behind them.