Theme Creation
Tips, Instructions, and Requirements
This page was not completed due to a lack of interest.
This page remains in case the project ever resumes, and
“for historical reasons”.
Themes and What They Change
A theme, as dealt with by this page, is a defined look,
style, or colorscheme
for use with the new, CSS-based
skin (tentatively entitled Divvy
).
Mostly, this is done with a stylesheet. The skin and site-wide stylesheets stay the same; the theme stylesheet is what is changed. That stylesheet is supposed to do some or all of the following:
- Change the colors (including background) of any parts of the page
- Add background images
- Add, modify, color, or remove borders
- Add or modify images for the site logo
- Style or use images for left- and right-column headings
The theme stylesheet should not change the following, as they are within the control of the skin and of the site visitor, respectively:
- Page layout
- Whether the font is serif or sans-serif – but the font for either sans or serif may be specified
How to Develop A Theme
- Come up with colorscheme
- Play in Photoshop or The GIMP or other image editor
-
Use the
playground.zippackage to mess with CSS styles
