Title and titleframe position

[LaTouf]

Hi all,

Despite my searches on the web, I could not find how to modify the title position (both the main title on the first frame and the frametitles). By that, I do not mean the text, but the full block that contains the text. For example, I want my main title to be centered in a rectangular block with some bg color, whose geometry is fully defined by me. Is that possible ?
The default behavior of beamer is nice to me, by not to my company ... And I still want to use beamer, so please , help !

[robfelty]

LaTouf wrote:

For example, I want my main title to be centered in a rectangular block with some bg color, whose geometry is fully defined by me. Is that possible ?

It is possible. The place you want to look is in the beameroutertheme<themename>.sty file. You probably want to create your own based on one that is included. Then you want to modify part that starts with
 \defbeamertemplate*{frametitle}

I am attaching my hacked version of the sidebar outer theme. To try it out, you will want to put
\useoutertheme{mysidebar} in your preamblebeamerouterthememysidebar.sty

[LaTouf]

Great, I am having a look to your example
Thanks
LaTouf