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Carlz0r
Theme Design Tutorials
  • 2004/7/24 1:06

  • Carlz0r

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 10

  • Since: 2003/12/21


Sorry if this is in the wrong forum but are there any good tutorials on how to make XOOPS Themes? I currently have a forum and I want to make my site look like the forum. If you could provide me with links to tutorials that would be great. Thanks.

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JMorris
Re: Theme Design Tutorials
  • 2004/7/24 1:57

  • JMorris

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2722

  • Since: 2004/4/11


You may want to take a look at the XOOPS For Dummies e-book published by JackJ. I'm pretty sure he has a link or two there as well as covers some of the basics of mod'ing templates.

Link:
https://xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1519

If you have any familiarity at all with html and CSS, my suggestion would be to open up the theme.html file in an editor [text or something like Dreamweaver] and take a look at the code and start tinkering. The core code of the theme.html file is actually pretty simple. The CSS in the file style.css isn't too difficult either.

Important note: You may want to use a program like XSAS or easyphp to setup a local web server for your tinkering, lest you mess up your production site.

If you need a primer on how to get started with coding, I highly recommend http://www.w3schools.com/.

Best of luck!

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jmass
Re: Theme Design Tutorials
  • 2004/7/24 2:12

  • jmass

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 524

  • Since: 2003/12/18


The two files:

theme.html
style.css

Maybe:
styleNN.css
styleMAC.css

are all you need.

I like to start with a theme that is font and size wise like I want and modify it. I can move and tweak things very quickly and all of the details like padding, margins, font size, etc. are already done. Saves me a lot of time.

JMass

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chapi
Re: Theme Design Tutorials
  • 2004/7/24 9:50

  • chapi

  • Theme Designer

  • Posts: 611

  • Since: 2002/1/22


The XOOPS Wiki is also a good start very often. You can find it through the menu on the left.

http://wiki.xoops.org/wakka.php?wakka=ThemeHowTo

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philou
Re: Theme Design Tutorials
  • 2004/8/2 9:06

  • philou

  • Quite a regular

  • Posts: 384

  • Since: 2002/5/6 8


you can also have a look on http://www.xoops-themes.org

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