How To Create Custom Templates?

Hey guys,

I am so confused as to how to create custom templates.  Can I just make it in photoshop and then upload it onto my server?

Thanks,

Majo0od !

hello....

photoshop? no!

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to create custom templates, you should know about html, php, css, yip! just it.

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oh i almost forget, you also should familiar with dolphin

of course you need to know that stuff, but how do you implement it?!  And photoshop= YES!  because thats the design portion...

best thing I have found is the firebug addon for firefox tells you the exact lines and where they can be found in your files.

except in orca you must mod orca/layout/uni/main.css every time you change this file in order to see the changes you must recompile en or what ever lang file you use. that simple.

have fun.

Jeremy & Ryver

If your going to use photoshop to create the entire template you will have problems, but if your using it to create the images for the template you will be fine.  As Club69 & smansakra explained, use Firefox w/Firebug and it will show you exactly where to edit the CSS files to achieve certain layout changes, php will result in others and finally html for some minor areas.  You need to realize that this can be a very fun thing to do as you dig through firebug to find the solutions to certain questions.

Keep this in mind, if you see

element

{

width:XXpx;

background-color: gray;

}

and there is no css file name, the bugger will be in a php or html file, those are fun ones to find. 

I highly recommend that people do take some time to edit their sites appearance using firebug, it allows you to play with things without making permanent file changes until your happy with what you see, it will also teach you how the code works to delive the results you want.

A faster way to obtain your images than going through photoshop is to use http://grsites.com  All the items on the site are free or low cost (depends on what you want) and the quality is very good.