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The management console user interface (https://localhost:9443/admin/carbon) of a Carbon product consists of two layers:

1. UI inherited from WSO2 Carbon platform contains the templates, styles (css files), and images that are stored in the core Carbon UI bundle stored in <PRODUCT<UES_HOME>/repository/components/plugins/ org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>.jar where <version-number> is the version of the Carbon kernel that the product is built on. This bundle is responsible for the overall look and feel of the entire Carbon platform.
2. UI unique to each product contains all the styles and images that override the ones in core Carbon platform. This file is in <PRODUCT<UES_HOME>/repository/components/plugins/org.wso2.<product-name>ues.admin.styles_<version-number>.jar where <version-number> is the version of the product and <product-name> is ues.

The following topics explain how to download a Carbon product and customize its user interface.

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1. Download your product.
2. Extract the ZIP file into a separate folder in your hard drive. 
3. Go to the <PRODUCT<UES_HOME>/repository/components/plugins/ directory to find the required JAR files:
   • org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>.jar
   • org.wso2.<product-name>ues.admin.styles_<version-number>.jar
4. Copy the JAR files to a separate location on your hard drive. Since the JAR files are zipped, you must unzip them to make them editable.

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The layout of the Carbon framework is built using a tiles JSP tag library. The use of tiles allows us to break the presentation of the layout into small JSP snippets that perform a specific function. For example, header.jsp and footer.jsp are the tiles corresponding to the header and footer in the layout. The template.jsp file controls the main layout page of the Carbon framework, which holds all the tiles together. That is, the header part in the template.jsp file is replaced with the <tiles:insertAttribute name="header"/> tag, which refers to the header.jsp file. The template.jsp file as well as the JSP files corresponding to the tiles are located in the org.wso2.<product-name>ues.admin.styles_<version-name>.jar/web/admin/layout/ directory.

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The styles and images unique to your product is location in the org.wso2.<product-name>ues.admin.styles_<version-number>.jar folder. To modify product specific styles and images, take the following steps.

1. Copy the necessary images to the org.wso2.<product-name>ues.admin.styles_<version-number>.jar/web/styles/images/ directory. For example, if you want to change the product banner, add the new image file to this directory.
2. Open the main.css file located in the org.wso2.<product-name>ues.admin.styles_<version-name>.jar/web/styles/css/ directory.

3. To specify a new product banner, change the background-image attribute of org.wso2.<product-name>ues.admin.styles_<version-name>.jar/web/styles/css/main.css file as follows:

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   /* ---------------- header styles ------------------ */ div#header-div { background-image: url( ../images/newproduct-header-bg.png); height:70px; }

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1. Compress the contents of the org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>.jar and org.wso2.<product-name>ues.admin.styles_<product-version>.jar folders into separate ZIP files.
2. Change the name of the ZIP file to org.wso2.carbon.ui_<version-number>.jar and org.wso2.<product-name>ues.admin.styles_<version-number>.jar respectively.
3. Copy these two new JAR files to the <PRODUCT<UES_HOME> /repository/components/plugins/ directory in your product installation.
4. Start the server.