Skinning DTAP infrastructure
Apply skinning to the Content Manager Explorer user interfaces in your DTAP setup in order to make a clear, visible distinction between the different environments.
About this task
When implementing SDL Web, to manage the development process and clearly separate the project implementation phases it is recommended to use a Development, Testing, Acceptance and Production infrastructure (DTAP). DTAP enables different users to manage different types of content on different Content Manager servers: the creation and management of content is distributed over several machines to prevent different types of content from getting in each other's way. You then use Content Porter, or a custom client interacting with the Import and Export service, to transfer data from one SDL Web environment to another.
To tell the different environments apart, you can skin the user interface as follows: