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Branding ForeFront TMG


Recently I've been asked to brand a couple clients' ForeFront TMG login screens, and I was rather shocked seeing it all being pure HTML and inline-styling.

Does there exist any tools aimed for branding the forefront TMG (I don't need to change any sentences or similar, only the layout of the page(s)). Or am I forced to open every single page and change the HTML and write inline-styling?

Thank you.


Solution

  • Well let me just say this, I Googled "Forefront TMG", and found your problem!

    Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 allows your business to safely and productively use the Internet without worrying about malware ...

    Microsoft Forefront Threat...

    Microsoft Forefront...

    Microsoft...

    So yeah, Microsoft loves doing that kind of stuff (not following standards or any known good practices known to man, blah blah blah), so that's probably the "logic behind ForeFront TMG".


    As for your actual problem, I'm afraid you won't have much choice but to make an offline backup of the current pages, and reconstruct them (normally, like a sane, non-cthulhu-possessed, human being) with an external stylesheet.

    Honestly, once you reconstruct page one, the rest should be much easier (since you already coded 80% of the CSS you need, all you are missing are some side CSS properties and class names).

    Good luck!