Making CiviCRM beautiful
How important is it that your CRM should look beautiful for your staff?
After all, staff can be trained. And they should, in theory, already be bought-in on your mission. Maybe you don't need to impress them with beautiful design.
But then again, there's no denying that they are people, and are thus susceptible to subtle cues that lead to trust, confidence, and pride in their work.
Or the lack thereof.
Just as you might invest in maintaining pleasant and modern office decor, there are tangible benefits to giving your staff a CRM interface that's it's pleasant to look at.
If you've been running CiviCRM for a while, you may expect it to look something like this:
But with a few simple configuration changes, it could look more like this:
All the functionality is exactly the same, and I would argue that the latter design is indeed preferable.
It just looks nicer.
And if you could have that, for virtually no additional cost or effort, would you want it?
I would.
Here’s how to get it:
Navigate to Administer > System Settings > Extensions, and there install the extension “RiverLea CiviCRM Theme Framework”
Navigate to Administer > Customize Data and Screens > Display Preferences, and there find the setting, “Backend Theme”; for this setting, select any of the “RiverLea” themes. (The above screenshot uses the one labeled “Walbrook (RiverLea ~Shoreditch/Island)”, but you can easily switch to another if you prefer, or just switch it back to “Automatic” if you want the “old” look.)
Now, isn’t that nice?
All the best,
A.
P.S. The RiverLea extension has been part of CiviCRM since version 5.80.0. And since CiviCRM’s last security release was 5.80.2, I’m assuming you’ve got it!