Making your Lotus Notes application conform to the Notes 8 visual style 

You can give existing (or new) Lotus Notes applications (databases) a Notes 8 look by customizing the action bar, Outline view, and column headers, as shown in figures 1, 3, and 4, respectively.

Figure 1. Ideal Action bar visual style

If you are using Domino Designer to create your Action bar, you will not be able to make it look exactly like the figure above. Rather, conform to the Action bar style for the Mail forms. Specifically, set the following Action bar properties as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Action Bar properties to set in Domino Designer:

• Bar height: 10.4 Exs
• Color: 239,239,239
• Border style: solid color 177, 177, 210
• Border effects: drop shadow, width 2, thickness 1
• Button size: default
• Display border on mouseover

Figure 3. Outline view visual style

Figure 4. Column header visual style

See also:

Visual style.
Icon style.
Visual style for composite applications.