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When designing ocPortal sites, you need to consider the modularity of the system. Modularity is fantastic because it allows ocPortal to serve so many different kinds of website with just a shuffling around of the features: but it also inevitably requires a different way of thinking. You need to think about how to achieve things using the features ocPortal provides, rather than trying to force ocPortal to conform to rigid preconceptions. The end result is often a better website than what was originally planned, because of the extras ocPortal offers.

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When themeing, you need to think in terms of editing and rearranging individual sections of the site as well as global sweeping things such as ‘standard boxes’ – in other words, you need to think in terms of the design framework that ocPortal defines, rather than just in terms of an end design. With experience, you won't feel limited by ocPortal, but assisted – you'll be able to make use of the framework to carry your style.

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Whilst the ‘Theme Wizard’ can automatically create a theme for you, it won't create unique designs variations. You can, however, radically change the layout of your website by changing three things: CSS, templates and theme images. All the tools to allow you to do this are in ocPortal – you will need a basic understanding of the technologies involved, but once learnt, you'll be able to make your website unrecognisable to any other ocPortal website. Alternatively you could download a premade theme as an addon, or pay someone to make one.

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Creating ocPortal and maintaining it at the relatively low/free-cost point that we do is enormously difficult for ocProducts and requires us to sell thousands of licences annually to pay ourselves even average salaries: if you love the product, please help us make it better by helping us gain new customers. If every user refers one more unique user, everyone would be using ocPortal and we'd have more money to reinvest. We help you grow your community – help us grow ours.

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Please refer ocPortal to others and help grow the community.

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You can quickly add large numbers of downloads by uploading them to a directory using FTP, then using the FTP importer to add them all to the download system in one sweep.

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Press the menu button towards the bottom-left of the screen to bring up the management menu wherever you are on your website. This really speeds up administration.

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Press Alt+O to bring up the OcCLE command line wherever you are on your website. Experts use OcCLE to interactively work with the guts of ocPortal, so that they don't have to program new features into it every time they want to do something unusual.

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You may place other websites' syndicated news on your site by using the RSS blocks. These blocks support both Atom and RSS feeds.

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Use Custom Comcode to quickly build Comcode pages that follow a common pattern.