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Natalie Maclees
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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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Time for action – customizing the data grid


We'll pick up right from where we left off with our data table. If you'd like to save your basic data grid example, just save a copy of the files we created. Then, perform the following steps to customize the appearance of your data grid:

  1. Head over to http://jqueryui.com/themeroller where we'll take a look at the ThemeRoller plugin. Take a look at the following screenshot to see the page. In the left-hand side column, you'll find the controls for selecting a predefined theme or creating a custom theme, and the right-hand side wide column contains samples of several different types of widgets.

  2. Click on the Gallery tab in the left-hand side column, and you'll see that you have dozens of choices of prebuilt ThemeRoller themes to choose from. As you click on different samples, you'll see the sample widgets in the right-hand side column update to reflect that style. I usually like to get started by selecting a prebuilt theme that's reasonably close to...

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Natalie Maclees

contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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