Changing the basic look and feel
As mentioned earlier, any big changes to the look and feel of JIRA can be achieved only by modifying the CSS files, JSPs, templates, and other tools involved. But JIRA lets its administrators make slightly simpler changes like changing the logo, coloring scheme, and so on, with some simple configurations. In this recipe, we will see some examples on how easy it is to make those changes.
There are mainly four things that can be configured to change JIRA's appearance:
Logo: Understandably, this is one thing everyone wants to change.
Colors: JIRA has a nice theme of colors revolving around a theme of blue. But we can easily change these colors to suit our taste or rather the company's taste!
Gadget colors: For each gadget in JIRA, we can set a different color chosen from a predefined set of colors. We can easily change the predefined list of colors through simple configuration.
Date and Time formats: The Date and Time formats in JIRA could be modified easily to suit...
