My Greenstone Library

A new home page can be created for your Greenstone3 digital library by modifying or replacing the home.xsl file found in the Greenstone3/web/interfaces/default/transform/pages folder.

For this homepage, we first downloaded a free CSS template from FreeCSSTemplates.org, released under a Creative Commons Attributions 2.5 license, so you're pretty much free to do whatever you want with it (even use it commercially) provided you keep the links in the footer intact.

We made a few modifications to the HTML of the index.html page-like removing a navigation bar at the top, changing the main photo, and removing or replacing parts of the text, as well as removing some escape characters (e.g.  , ©), before including it in this tutorial.

In the tutorial, you create your own home.xsl (after saving the original as something else!), and start making a new home page, by copying in the HTML from index.html into the right place. Then, you have to modify the paths to the stylesheet and any images, so they point to the right place, and voila! you have a pretty library home page. But it doesn't have links to anywhere else in your library yet.

So, we add in links for some library pages (like the Login, Administration, and Help pages). But somethings, like the up-to-date list of collections in your library,

If you want to completely change the layout of your entire library, you probably want to define your very own interface. You can read more about interfaces in the Greenstone3 manual. Tutorial coming soon!