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Branding the Login & Logout Screens

The login/logout screens are valuable marketing space that can be used to get the attention of your user. In order to update this page you're going to need to change a core file so when upgrading these changes need to be made again.

By making a simple edit you can include your site logo to the login screen.

Step 1: Create the 'screenbrading' folder in the images directory
Step 2: Place your logo image in this directory: images > screenbranding > pnlogo1?.gif
Step 3: Open the main user tools file in your editor: modules > user > tools.php

1. 1. down to line 59 where you'll see <div style=\"text-align:center\">$message</div></body></html>

You can insert the image here with the following HTML code: <img src=\"images/screenbranding/pnlogo1?.gif\" /> along with any other text or formatting you'd like to include.

Note, you can also change the time needed to 'refresh' the page by changing the <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=\"2; URL=$url\"> number listed here from 2 to 30 if you'd like -- note, from a usability standpoint you don't want the user to wait a long period of time but using something from 5 to 10 seconds would be reasonable.