Tab customization

Our school is looking to use the portal on fairly large scale and we would like to have complete control over the look & feel of the site. We have figured out how to change the colors and layouts but we can't seem to find a way to customize the look of the tabs on pages other than changing their color. A good example of what we are hoping to do can be found at: http://www.webpe.com/Pages/Demos/DemoPortal/DemoPortal_04f.html The tabs are shaped differently, and have a nice background for the tabs. I hope there is a way to change the shape without having to go into the images directory and editing the images we are using since that is not an easy way to do it and requires many more administration headaches. I have read a few suggestions about turning off the banner some how and re-creating it with a portlet but as was stated in that post you loose a lot of control from the user/group permissions side on who can see what and these controls are absolutely crucial. I hope someone can point me in the right direction to make these changes!
-Eric Dalquist

One posibility would be to rename the origenal gifs and copy yours to the oracle\isuits\portal30\images directory this is on NT. Here we had to alter the FFFFFFxx gifs to get squar tabs !
I hope you can do something with the answer.
Regards Erwin

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    http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_system/5.1/user/guide/users_id_stores.html#wp1140999
    Once you are done, go to the access-policy >> on the right bottom corner, you would see a tab "customize" click on it and move the attribute AD1:ExternalGroups to thr right end side >> click ok >> create a new authorization policy and select the group you fetched in the directory groups under AD configuration.
    In order to do dynamic vlan assignment on ACS 5.1 you do the following:
    Policy elements >> Authorization  and permissions >> Network Access >> Authorization profile >> Create >> Give it a name like example "switch" >> Common tasks >> Click on VLAN ID name >> Select Static >> Give Vlan Number >> Click Submit >> Go to Access Policies >> Under default network access click on authorization >> Create >> Give the Rule a name like "vlan assignment for SWITCH" >> Click on Ad1:external groups >> Contains any >> Select -> choose the appropriate AD group >> Click ok >> Click select for authorization profiles >> Choose the profile that was previously create called "switch" >>   Click ok >> Now you assign the VLAN of "SWICTH" to the Group to the AD group >>  Click OK.
    HTH
    Regds,  Jatin
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