Themes

This 24-minute course offers a comprehensive understanding of 'Report Themes Customisation,' a professional branding solution for creating custom-branded technical reports across all Better Building analysis outputs. Through detailed step-by-step instruction, participants will learn to design, configure, and implement comprehensive report themes that replace default Better Building branding with professional company-specific formatting for building performance analysis documentation.

Key Course Content

This course establishes the strategic importance of professional report branding within technical consulting workflows, helping you understand how custom themes enhance credibility across multiple analysis types including building performance, daylight, carbon, and thermal calculations. You'll explore the comprehensive scope of theme customisation including page layout, typography, colour schemes, logos, and watermarking to create professional presentations that distinguish your work from default platform branding and elevate client presentation standards.

You'll start by mastering fundamental document structure customisation including page orientation selection for different analysis types, comprehensive margin configuration for optimal content presentation, and header/footer space allocation to accommodate branding elements. The course teaches you the critical relationship between margin settings and content visibility, strategic layout decisions for different report lengths and complexity levels, and how to balance aesthetic appeal with functional content presentation. You'll also dive into comprehensive corporate branding integration including company name configuration with dynamic reference tagging, professional registration number inclusion for regulatory compliance, and advanced logo implementation using publicly accessible URLs with size and positioning optimisation.

The course extensively covers sophisticated visual design customisation including comprehensive font selection across document elements, multi-level heading hierarchy configuration for structured technical documentation, and advanced colour scheme implementation using hex colour codes for brand consistency. You'll gain hands-on experience with technical data presentation customisation including table header styling with branded colour schemes, alternating row colour configuration for enhanced readability, and comprehensive padding and spacing optimisation for data clarity. Advanced topics include comprehensive theme testing across multiple analysis types, watermarking strategies for draft documentation, URL stability requirements for logo hosting, and systematic quality assurance workflows for theme validation before client presentation.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be thoroughly equipped to create comprehensive custom report themes, implement professional branding strategies across all Better Building analysis outputs, and maintain consistent corporate presentation standards that enhance technical credibility and client confidence in building performance documentation.

Course Completion

A Certificate of Completion will be awarded upon achieving an 80% pass mark on the final quiz.

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